Teddy is solving the following problem: James earns $400 a week plus $5 in tips for each customer he serves. He is hoping to earn more than $1,000 this week. How many customers would he have to serve to meet his goal? Describe the solutions. Teddy writes the inequality 5x+4001,000, where x is the number of customers James serves. Teddy solves the inequality and finds that x120. How should Teddy interpret this solution in the context of the problem?

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Teddy is solving the following problem: James earns $400 a week plus $5 in tips for each customer he serves. He is hoping to earn more than $1,000 this week. How many customers would he have to serve to meet his goal? Describe the solutions. Teddy writes the inequality 5x+400>1,000, where x is the number of customers James serves. Teddy solves the inequality and finds that x>120. How should Teddy interpret this solution in the context of the problem?

GPT 3.5 · Answer

Teddy should interpret this solution to mean that James would need to serve more than 120 customers in order to meet his goal of earning more than $1,000 this week.