Define a variable and write and inequality for the statement: In order to earn credit for your Alegebra 1A course, you must earn at least a 70%.

I'm not really sure how to answer this if someone can please help me step by step to figure this out.
Thank You

at least means greater than or equal, so

if g is your grade (percent), you need

g >= 70

Thank you Steve, for helping me know how to figure this out.

thanx

Sure, I can help you with that! To define a variable, you can choose any letter or symbol to represent an unknown number. For example, let's use "x" to represent your grade in the Algebra 1A course.

Now, let's write the inequality based on the statement: "In order to earn credit for your Algebra 1A course, you must earn at least a 70%."

We can represent this inequality as:
x ≥ 70

This inequality states that the grade "x" must be greater than or equal to 70 in order to earn credit for the Algebra 1A course.

To answer this question, let's break it down step by step:

Step 1: Define a variable:
In mathematics, we often use variables to represent unknown quantities or values. So, let's define a variable to represent the grade in the Algebra 1A course. We can use the variable "x" for this purpose.

Step 2: Interpret the statement:
The statement says that in order to earn credit for your Algebra 1A course, you must earn at least a 70%. This means that if your grade is less than 70%, you will not earn credit.

Step 3: Write the inequality:
Since we defined the variable "x" to represent the grade, we can now write the inequality. The inequality symbol for "at least" is "≥" (greater than or equal to).

So, the inequality for the statement "In order to earn credit for your Algebra 1A course, you must earn at least a 70%." can be written as:

x ≥ 70

This inequality states that the grade "x" must be greater than or equal to 70 in order to earn credit in the Algebra 1A course.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.