The minimum hourly pay for working in Maryland is $8.75.
This means that the hourly pay for working, which is represented by variable x, has to be equal or greater than 8.75. So the inequality that describes the situation is:
This number has to be read with its whole part first (twenty-three) and then its decimal part (one hundreth), so the complete sentence to read this number is twenty-three and one hundredth.