Question

You have prizes to revea Level H AA.4 Write and graph inequalities: word problems AGB Tu Janet and her friend Molly ran in the Cheetown City-View Race. Janet finished the race in 66 minutes. Molly finished ahead of Janet, with a faster time. Let t represent the amount of time, in minutes, that it might have taken Molly to finish the race. Which inequality models the story? t> 66 t> 66 t< 66 t< 66

Answer 1

The two symbols that represents inequalities are < and >. The first one is know as less than, while the second is know as greater than.

The symbol less than(<) represents that the number on the left side of the inequality is smaller than the number on the right side

$aOn this example, a is "smaller" than b.

The symbol greater than(>) represents that the number on the left side of the inequality is greater than the number on the right side

[tex]a>b$

On this example, a is "bigger" than b.

Back to our problem, Janet finished the race in 66 minutes and Molly finished ahead of Janet, with a faster time. Since we're representing Molly's time as t, since Molly finished with a faster time this means that t is smaller than Janet's time, which is 66 minutes. Writing this as an inequality, we have

$t<66$