Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Let b represent the the number of bagels that she could buy.
At most, she can spend $25. She will spend a total of $3.50 on cream cheese. Each bagel costs an additional $0.90. The cost of b bagels would be 0.9b. Therefore, the inequality that can be used to determine the number of bagels she could buy is
0.9b + 3.50 ≤ 25
0.9b ≤ 25 - 3.5
0.9b ≤ 21.5
Dividing through by 0.9, it becomes
0.9b/0.9 ≤ 21.5/0.9
b ≤ 23.8
The most number of bagels that she could buy is 23