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Word Problems
1. A student with two summer jobs earns $10 per hour at a café and $8 per hour at a market.
The student would like to earn at least $800 per month.
a) Write an inequality to represent the situation.
b) The student works at the market for 60 hours per month and can work at the café for
at most 90 hours per month. Can the student earn at least $800 each month?
2. A friend has $75 to buy some new shirts and pants. Each shirt cost $11 and each pair of
pants costs $19. Write an inequality that shows how many shirts and pants your friend can buy.
3. Admission to the movie theater costs $7.50 for adults and $3.50 for students. The theater
must bring in at least $200 per movie.
a) Write an inequality for the number of tickets the theater needs to sell to make a
profit.
b) If the theater sells 15 adults tickets, how many student tickets do they need to sell to
make a profit?
4. Jason is buying wings and hotdogs for a party. One package of wings cost $7. Hotdogs cost
$4 per pound. He must spend less than $40. Write an inequality that show how many hotdogs
and wings Jason can buy?
5. The boys and girls soccer clubs are trying to raise money for new uniforms. The boys’ soccer
club is selling candy bars for $2 apiece and the girls’ soccer club is selling candles for $4. They
must raise more than $800. Write an inequality to represent how much the girls and boys must
sell to raise enough money.
6. Sarah is selling bracelets and earrings to make money for summer vacation. The bracelets
cost $2 and earrings cost $3. She needs to make at least $500. Write an inequality to represent
how much Sarah must sell?
7. You have $60 and your sister has $120. You are saving $7 per week and your sister is saving
$5 per week. How long will it be before you and your sister have the same amount of money?
8. An exam worth 145 points contains 50 questions. Some of the questions are worth two
points and some are worth five points. How many two point questions are on the test? How
many five point questions are on the test?
9. The Bulls scored a total of 80 points in a basketball game against the Lakers. The Bulls made
a total of 37 two-point and three-point baskets. How many two-point shots did the Bulls make?
How many three-point shots did the Bulls make?
10. You are running a concession stand at a basketball game. You are selling hot dogs and
sodas. Each hot dog costs $1.50 and each soda costs $0.50. At the end of the night you made a
total of $78.50. You sold a total of 87 hot dogs and sodas combined. How many hot dogs were
sold and how many sodas were sold?
11. On an algebra test, the highest grade was 42 points higher than the lowest grade. The sum
of the two grades was 138. Find the lowest grade.
12. In a given amount of time, Jamie drove twice as far as Rhonda. Altogether they drove 90
miles. Find the number of miles driven by each?