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A group a friends go to the movie theater and purchase snacks. The cost for snacks is $10 for popcorn plus $3 per person for candy.
Let p represent the number of people in the group.
Part 2: The group of friends were willing to spend at most $40 total. Using your expression in Part 1, write an inequality to represent this situation.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Total cost = 10 + 3p.
At most $40: 10 + 3p ≤ 40.

Solving: 3p ≤ 30 → p ≤ 10 (and p is a nonnegative integer), so at most 10 people.