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Question

Tony is serving his child french fries and chicken wings for lunch today. Let f be the number of french fries in the lunch, and let c be the number of chicken wings. Each french fry has 25 calories, and each chicken wing has 100 calories.



Tony wants the total calorie count from the french fries and chicken wings to be at most 

500 calories. Using the values and variables given, write an inequality describing this

Answer 1

Hi Eli.

If each chicken wing has 100 calories then

If the child eats 1 wings.... He gets 100 ·1, or 100 calories

If the child eats 2 wings.... He gets 100 ·2, or 200 calories

If the child eats 3 wings.... He gets 100 ·3, or 300 calories

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If the child eats c wings.... He gets 100c calories

Using that same logic tell me how many calories the child gets when he or she eats f fries?

Next, notice that the child's total calories is the calories they got from wings and the calories they got from fries. So add 100c to your answer to the bold question.

Finally, since we want the fries to be "at most" 500, we would set write

(that sum) ≤ 500.

Does that help? Reply with any questions.

Answer 2

25f (total calories of fries) + 100c (total calories in chicken wings) ≤ (at most symbol) 500 (the max amount of calories Tony can have)

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Answer 3

Since each french fry has 25 calories, the number of calories in a pile of french fries is 25f where f is the number of fries. The same for a pile of chicken wings, calories = 100c. So the total calories in a pile of wings and french fries is 25f + 100c. Tony wants this to be at most 500 calories so:

25f + 100c < 500