Let's use the variable x to represent the number of pizzas Ms. Ruggiero can buy.
If each pizza is $8.75, the wings are $4.25, the tax is 9.25% and the tip is 15%, and all this needs to be lesser than or equal 50, we have the inequality:
[tex]\begin{gathered} (8.75x+4.25)\cdot1.0925\cdot1.15\le50 \\ 10.99x+5.34\le50 \\ 10.99x\le50-5.34 \\ 10.99x\le44.66 \\ x\le\frac{44.66}{10.99} \\ x\le4.06 \end{gathered}[/tex]So Ms. Ruggiero can buy 4 pizzas with $50.
