Under his cell phone plan, Parker pays a flat cost of $36.50 per month and $5 per gigabyte. He wants to keep his bill under $45 per month. Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine gg, the number of gigabytes Parker can use while staying within his budget.

 Parker can use 1.7 gigabytes to stay within his budget.

Step-by-step explanation:

If Parker pays a  flat cost of $36.50 and has to pay $5 a month then we can represent it by the  36.50 + 5gg  where gg is the number of gigabytes.

If  he has to keep his bill under $45 , then 36.50 + 5gg has to be less than 45.

36.50 + 5gg < 45.   Now solve for gg

-36.50             36.50

   5gg < 8.5

  gg< 1.7