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SAT Math: Identifying a Pair of Chocolate-Covered Inequalities 4 Views
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Austin is buying candy for a fundraiser. He has only $18 to spend and wants to buy at least 10 pieces of candy. He would like to buy either chocolate candy, which costs $1.15 a piece, or sour candy, which costs $2.50 a piece. Let x represent the number of chocolate candies he buys, and let y represent the number of sour candies, where x and y are nonnegative integers. Which of the following systems of inequalities accurately models Austin's situation?
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- 00:03
All right s e t math shmoop er's You have
- 00:06
our condolences that this is how you have to spend
- 00:08
your saturday but try to make it less painful so
- 00:11
you can look at this whole reference information thing of
- 00:14
unhealthy but well frankly it's not worth that much Okay
Full Transcript
- 00:17
we have won five In the siri's Austin is one
- 00:18
candy for a fundraiser He has only thing to spend
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One's about The same piece of candy like about chocolate
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candy would cost about fifteen apiece or sour candy which
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cost two fifty for a representative from tennessee buys and
- 00:25
representing sour candies that sweet and sour pork that's Why
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are no negativity right there No negative positive filing systems
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of inequalities accurately models austin's situations Are inequalities That means
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we have little happy smiley duckface thing there And little
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assads miley duck face thing there and it's a greater
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than less than or equal to Yeah that's what it
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is So we're thinking aloud here What does all this
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mean Well math is at its sweetest when there's chocolate
- 00:50
involved in a problem You know we said that the
- 00:52
number of chocolate candies his ex and why is the
- 00:55
number of sour candies you just made that up We
- 00:57
just assigned x and y right there without any presidential
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directive So x plus why Must be the total number
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of candies austin buys Right Number suite number sour austin
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wants to buy at least ten pieces Meaning ten or
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more So it's equal to ten or greater than ten
- 01:14
So x plus y has to be greater than or
- 01:17
equal to ten right there That's How we write it
- 01:18
x plus y greater than equal to ten All right
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keep going Each chocolate candy x costs a buck fifteen
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and a sour candy Why cost two Fifty Therefore one
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point one five x is the money paid for x
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number of chocolate candies and two Point five wise the
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money paid for a y number of sour candies making
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the total cost of the candy equal to one point
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One five Acts plus 2 . 5 why very clever all right
- 01:42
then because austin on lee has eighteen bucks to spend
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well the cost the total must be less than or
- 01:48
equal to eighteen bucks so we write it as one
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point five Acts plus 2 . 5 white has to be less
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than or equal to eighteen well are two inequalities are
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x plus y is greater than equal to ten and
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one point one five Acts plus 2 . 5 why is less
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than or equal to eighteen so the answer's right there
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it's right in front of you can even circle it
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if you want austin wants to buy at least ten
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pieces so he would not accept any amount less than
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ten so get rid of that guy and that guy
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we could also be led astray if we read the
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question in a hurry and assumed austin had in dollars
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to spend on eighteen pieces are some weird trance positional
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thing but we didn't do that so the answer is
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right there okay good we're done
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