The weight of a fruit basket containing apples, pears and the basket itself cannot exceed 15 pounds. If the basket and apples weigh 10.5 pounds and each pear weighs 0.25 pounds, how many pears can go into each basket. Set up and solve an algebraic inequality. Show your work!

b

step-by-step explanation:

a difference is the result of subtraction. while each of these expressions has subtraction in it, a difference will be the result when subtraction is the last operation applied in the order of operations for the expression. this means subtraction must be outside of the parenthesis. only b has this.