Barrett is ordering t-shirts for his school's student council. Company D charges a $30 design fee plus $6.25 per t-shirt. Company E charges a $12 design fee plus $9.75 per t-shirt. Which inequality can be used to find x, the minimum number of t-shirts that can be ordered so that the total cost with Company D is less than the total cost with Company E?

An is a number that is written without a component. it is a number that is either or . an exponent is a or a number that another number is being to. the number that is being raised to a is called the . the or power tells you how many times to the base by . if an exponent is fractional then ask yourself the question: what when multiplied by itself a certain number of times will equal the number?