Amy is building a house. The basement floor is at 15 feet. The roof of the house is above the ground 25 feet. Express the comparison of height as a inequality. Explain the meaning of the inequality.
To express the comparison of height between the basement floor and the roof of the house as an inequality, we can use the concept of "greater than" or "less than".
Since the basement floor is at 15 feet and the roof is above the ground at 25 feet, we can say that the height of the roof is greater than the height of the basement floor.
Mathematically, we can express this inequality as:
Roof height > Basement floor height
or
25 feet > 15 feet
The inequality means that the height of the roof is more than the height of the basement floor. In this case, it is a strict inequality because the roof is strictly higher than the basement floor.