12) Oliver is not allowed to watch more than 4 hours of television a week. He watched his favorite show on Monday which was 1 ho
ur long and his favorite Tuesday show which was 1.5 hours long. How many more hours of television can he watch? Set up an equation and solve. A) 2.5x = 4; Oliver can watch 1.6 more hours this week. B) x + 1 + 1.5 = 4; Oliver can watch 1.5 more hours this week. C) x + 4 = 1 + 1.5; Oliver can watch 1.5 more hours this week.
B. Oliver can watch TV for 1.5 hours more this week.
Step-by-step explanation:
Oliver is not allowed to watch more than 4 hours of television a week. He watched his favorite show on Monday which was 1 hour long and his favorite Tuesday show which was 1.5 hours long.
So he has already finished 2.5 hours of watching . He can watch only for 4 hours for the total week.
Let x be the number of more hours for which he can watch television.
Then ,
x + 1 + 1.5 = 4
x + 2.5 = 4
x = 4 - 2.5
x = 1.5 hours.
So Oliver can watch television for at most 1.5 hours for the rest of the week.
The family has less than $200 to spend on groceries, so x will be less than that amount, so the "greater than" sign will point to $200 because $200 will be greater than x (see above
