Grace will receive $50 plus $5 per child for babysitting this afternoon. She is hoping to make at least $63 to buy a new video game tonight. How many children does she need to babysit? Write an inequality that could be used to solve this problem. Use the letter x

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Answer 1

To express the situation as an inequality, we can denote the number of children Grace babysits as \( x \). The total amount Grace will earn can be represented by the expression \( 50 + 5x \). Since she wants to make at least $63, we can write the inequality as follows:

\[ 50 + 5x \geq 63 \]

This is the inequality that represents the problem.