John is at a local bait shop; he wants to buy bait for his fishing trip. At the store, they are selling live bait for $12 a pound and natural bait for $7 a pound. John would like to get at least 3 pounds of live bait, but he only has a budget of $63. Let x be the amount of live bait and y be the amount of natural bait. Model the scenario with a system of inequalities.

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Using your definitions ... "at least 3 pounds of live bait" -----> x ≥ 3 "only has a budget of $63" ----> 12x + 7y ≤ 63