Felipe runs each lap in 4 minutes. He will run at most 48 minutes today. What are the possible numbers of laps he will run today?
Use for the number of laps he will run today.
Write your answer as an inequality solved for .
Let x be the number of laps Felipe will run today.
Since Felipe runs each lap in 4 minutes, the total time he will spend running x laps is 4x minutes.
According to the given information, at most 48 minutes will be spent running today. So we have the inequality:
4x ≤ 48
Solving for x:
x ≤ 48/4
x ≤ 12
Therefore, the possible numbers of laps Felipe will run today are 0 ≤ x ≤ 12, where x is an integer.