Stan wants to buy a shirt and a tie and must spend less than $30 for both. If the tie costs $7.95, how much can he pay for the shirt?

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Rushi A.
Dec 18, 2016

If Stan wants to spend less than $30, the shirt will have to cost less than $22.05.

Explanation:

First, you make an equation for this, where #x# equals the cost of the shirt.

The equation would be #7.95+x<30#.

To isolate #x# you would subtract $7.95 from $30 to get #x<22.05#. This basically means that the cost of the shirt has to be less than $22.05 for Stan to spend less than $30.

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