Question

The airplane Li’s family will be flying on can seat up to 149 passengers. If 96 passengers are currently on the plane, which inequality can be used to determine how many more people can board? 96 x Less-than-or-equal-to 149 96 x Greater-than-or-equal-to 149 96 x > 149 96 x < 149.

Answer 1

Inequality is mathematical statement, usually consisting comparison of two expression, and not being strictly equal. The needed inequality is: Option A : $96 + x \leq 149$

How to form mathematical expression from the given description?

You can represent the unknown amounts by the use of variables. Follow whatever the description is and convert it one by one mathematically. For example if it is asked to increase some item by 4 , then you can add 4 in that item to increase it by 4. If something is for example, doubled, then you can multiply that thing by 2 and so on methods can be used to convert description to mathematical expressions.

For the given  condition, it is already given that the maximum seats available for passengers in the flight is 149.

The plane is currently  filled with 96 passengers.

Let the variable $x$ represents the number of people that will board on the plane.

Then, total number of passengers on the plane would be 96 + x

This number cannot exceed 149

We can write it mathematically as:

$96 + x \leq 149$

That sign ≤ means "less than or equal to"

Thus, the inequality needed is given by Option A : $96 + x \leq 149$

Learn more about inequalities here:

brainly.com/question/11901702