<p> Name ______Date ______Word Problems with Inequalities</p><p>1. Your quiz grades are 78, 72, 87, and 90. What score on the fifth quiz will make your average quiz grade at least 82?</p><p>2. You rent a car and are offered 2 payment options. You can pay $25 a day plus 15￠ a mile (option A) or you can pay $10 a day plus 40￠ a mile (option B). For what amount of daily miles will option A be the cheaper plan?</p><p>3. To get a grade of C in your course, you must average at least 75% on 4 exams. You have taken the first three exams and gotten scores of 68, 78, and 81. What must you score on the last exam to get a C or better?</p><p>4. You have just been given a new job in sales. You have two salary options. You can receive a straight salary of $500 per week (no commission option) or you can receive a salary of $200 per week plus 5% of your weekly sales (commission option). What dollar amount of product must you sell each week in order for the commission option to be the better deal?</p><p>5. Your elementary school is having a fall carnival. Admission into the carnival is $3 and each game inside the carnival costs $.25. Write an inequality that represents the possible number of games that can be played having $10. What is the maximum number of games that can be played?</p><p>6. You are a farmer and have $350,000 to spend on farm equipment. The hay bailers cost $6500 each and the plowing disks cost $2500 each. Write an inequality that models the different numbers of hay bailers and plowing disks that could be purchased</p><p>7. You and your family attend your brother’s championship baseball game. Between innings you decide to go to the snack stand. You go to the snack stand with $15 and find that sodas are $2.50 and that popcorn is $1.75. Write an inequality that models the numbers of sodas and bags of popcorn that can be bought.</p><p>8. Stella wants to place her money in a high interest money market account. However, she needs at least $1000 to open an account. Each month, she sets aside some of her earnings in a savings account. In January through June, she added the following amounts to her savings: $121, $206, $138, $212, $109, and $134. Write an inequality which describes the amount of money she should set aside in July to qualify for the money market account. </p><p>9. A high school band program will receive $2000.00 for selling $10,000.00 worth of coupon books. Six band classes participate in the sales drive. Classes 1-5 collect the following amounts of money: $1,400, $2,600, $1,800, $2,450, and $1,550. Write an inequality which describes the amount of money the sixth class must collect so that the band will receive $2,000.</p><p>10. A small elevator has a maximum capacity of 1,000 pounds before the cable holding it in place snaps. Six people get on the elevator. Five of their weights follow: 146, 180, 130, 262, and 135. Write an inequality which describes the amount the sixth person can weigh without snapping the cable </p>