there is space for 110 students to go on a field trip. Currently, 68 students have signed up. write and solve an inequality to find how many more students can sign up for the field trip
To find out how many more students can sign up for the field trip, we need to determine the maximum number of students that can be accommodated within the space available.
Let's denote the number of students that can still sign up as "x". Since there is space for 110 students and 68 have already signed up, the number of remaining spots can be calculated as the difference: 110 - 68 = 42.
Thus, the inequality to represent the number of students that can sign up is:
x ≤ 42
This inequality states that the maximum value for "x" (the number of students that can still sign up) is 42.
Solving the inequality, we find that the largest possible value for "x" is 42, meaning that up to 42 additional students can sign up for the field trip.