A parent is going school shopping for her children. She has $56.50 to spend on school supplies and wants to purchase at least 16 items. Composition notebooks cost $3.99 each and pencils cost $1.99 a box. Write a system of inequalities to show how many composition notebooks, x, and pencil boxes, y, the parent can afford to buy.

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so firstly, we need to isolate the y variables to be able to solve these inequalities. firstly, add 0.5x on both sides of the first inequality and subtract 1.5x on both sides of the second inequality:

now since the slope is positive for the first inequality, this means that the line going upwards belongs to the first inequality, and the line going downwards belongs to the second inequality.

next, since y ≥ in the first inequality, this means that the shaded region will be above the first inequality's line, thus shading regions a and b.

next, since y ≤ in the second inequality, this means that the shaded region is going to be below this line, thus shading regions a and c.

since both lines shade region a, this means that region a is the solution.

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493 would be the correct answer

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1/2(2*4)=6 $$- agahajakanajak