You want to start a bakery business to earn money. The total amount of money you will invest is $10,000. You will be selling cakes. It will cost you $14 to make each cake.

Question

Write an inequality that represents the cost of making x amount of cakes should not exceed this investment.

Answer 1

Let's assume the number of cakes made is represented by x. Therefore, the cost of making x cakes would be 14x.

The inequality would be:

14x ≤ 10,000