Julia is allowed to watch no more than 5 hours of television a week. So far this week, she has watched 1.5 hours. Write and solve an inequality to show how many hours of television Julia can still watch this week.
1.5 + x <= 5
To find out how many hours of television Julia can still watch this week, we need to subtract the hours she has already watched from the maximum allowed hours.
Let's represent the maximum allowed hours as "5" and the hours Julia has already watched as "1.5".
The inequality can be written as:
5 - 1.5 ≤ x
Simplifying the inequality:
3.5 ≤ x
Therefore, Julia can still watch up to 3.5 hours of television this week.
Let's represent the total number of hours Julia can still watch this week as x.
The inequality can be written as:
1.5 + x ≤ 5
To solve for x, we need to isolate it on one side of the inequality:
x ≤ 5 - 1.5
x ≤ 3.5
Therefore, Julia can still watch up to 3.5 hours of television this week.