You are working on decorating your home for the holidays. You enjoy hanging lights and so far have invested in $75 worth of lights. You notice a sale that you can get strands of lights for $5 a box this week. Write an expression that describes your total investment (money spent) in lights, depending on how many boxes (b) you buy.

Problem situation: caren is making rice and beans. she can spend no more than $10 on ingredients. she buys one bag of rice for $4.99. beans cost $0.74 per pound. how many pounds of beans, x, can she buy? inequality that represents this situation: 10≥4.99+0.74x drag each number to show if it is a solution to both the inequality and the problem situation, to the inequality only, or if it is not a solution.