Demetrius can spend as much as `\$50` on shirts.

Shirts, `s`, cost `\$16` each at a nearby store.

Which inequality represents this situation?

50s _<16

50s >_ 16

16s >_ 50

16s _< 50

User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
14 hours ago

To represent the situation mathematically, we need to express the total cost of the shirts in terms of the number of shirts, \( s \).

The cost of \( s \) shirts is given by \( 16s \) (since each shirt costs $16). Demetrius can spend up to $50, which means the total cost must be less than or equal to $50.

This gives us the inequality:

\[ 16s \leq 50 \]

So the correct inequality that represents the situation is:

16s ≤ 50