Question

You earn $9.20 per hour at your summer job.Write and solve an inequality that represents the number of hours you need to work in order to buy a smart phone that costs $299

Answer 1

Well first the unknown number is the amount of hours she works. That will be x. You will multiply 9.20 by the amount of numbers to make 299. That means the amount of hours times 9.20 has to be greater than or equal to 299. The inequality will look like this

9.20x ≤ 299