Jamila is writing a college admission essay with a maximum word count of 1,000 words. So far, Jamila has written 685 words. At most, how many more words can Jamila write without going over the word count limit? Which inequality best models this problem?
Jamila can write at most 1000 - 685 = 315 more words without going over the word count limit.
The inequality that best models this problem is:
x ≤ 315
where x represents the number of additional words Jamila can write.