L has purchased 20 trading cards and wants to have at most 50 trading cards. write and solve an inequality to find the number of trading cards L needs. select all of the true statements.

Answer 1

Let "x" be the number of additional trading cards L needs.

The inequality representing the given situation is 20 + x ≤ 50.
This inequality states that the sum of the number of trading cards L already has (20) and the number of additional trading cards L needs (x) must be less than or equal to 50.

To solve for x, we subtract 20 from both sides of the inequality:
x ≤ 50 - 20
x ≤ 30

The true statements are:
- L needs at most 30 additional trading cards.
- If L already has 20 trading cards, the maximum number of additional trading cards L can have is 30.
- L cannot have more than 50 trading cards in total.