Briana is allowed to watch no more than 5 hours of T.V a week. So far this week, she has watched 1.5 hours. Write and solve an inequality to show how many hours of T.V Briana can still watch this week.
MY ANSWER:
T<5
T - 1.5 < 5 - 1.5
T = 3.5
Okay, you are on the right track! Briana is allowed to watch NO MORE THAN. Your inequality should be T<=5. Does that make sense?
OK, Yes I do understand!
Thank You, Cassidy for responding fast!
1.) Wait so it like this ? :
T<5
T - 1.5 < 5 - 1.5
T = T<=5
2.) or like this ? :
T<5
T - 1.5 < 5 - 1.5
T<=5
The first line should be
T<=5
oh ok
To solve this problem, we can start by setting up an inequality to represent how many hours of T.V Briana can still watch this week.
Let T represent the number of hours of T.V Briana can still watch this week.
We know that Briana can watch no more than 5 hours of T.V a week. Therefore, we can write the inequality as:
T ≤ 5
Now, let's subtract the hours she has already watched, which is 1.5 hours, from both sides of the inequality:
T - 1.5 ≤ 5 - 1.5
Simplifying this inequality:
T - 1.5 ≤ 3.5
To solve for T, we need to isolate it on one side of the inequality. So, we can add 1.5 to both sides:
T - 1.5 + 1.5 ≤ 3.5 + 1.5
T ≤ 5
Therefore, the solution to the inequality is T ≤ 3.5. This means that Briana can still watch up to 3.5 hours of T.V this week.