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Monica has $20. She needs to buy a gallon of milk that costs $2.50. She also wants to buy yogurt, which costs $1.20 a cup. What is the greatest number of cups of yogurt Monica can buy?

Use the inequality 1.20x + 2.5 ≤ 20 to solve the problem.

Monica can buy
cups of yogurt.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Solve 1.20x + 2.5 ≤ 20:
x ≤ (20 − 2.5) / 1.20 = 17.5 / 1.20 ≈ 14.5833.

Monica can buy at most 14 cups of yogurt.