Question

A mountain climbing team is camped at an altitude of 18,460 feet on Mount Everest. The team wants to reach the 29,029 foot summit within 6 days. Write an inequality to find the average number of feet per day the team must climb to accomplish its objective.

Answer 1

Explanation:

The distance left to climb is 29,029 ft less 18,460 ft, or 10569 ft.

The team has 6 days in which to climb these 10,569 feet; the unit rate is thus:

10,569 feet

----------------- = 1761.5 ft.

6 days

So long as the average climb per day is 1,761.5 ft or greater, the team will make it to the top of Mt. Everest in 6 days or less.