Question

Layla is working two summer jobs, babysitting and tutoring. She can work at most 8 hours altogether between both jobs in a given week. Write an inequality that would represent the possible values for the number of hours babysitting,

b
b, and the number of hours tutoring,
t
t, that Layla can work in a given week.

Answer 1

The inequality equation is
`b+t\leq 8`,

Explanation:

Let the number of hours she work in Babysitting be b.

Also Number of hours she work in tutoring be t.

She can work at most 8 hours altogether between both jobs in a given week.

We need to find the Inequality expression that would represent the possible values for the number of hours babysitting, b and the number of hours tutoring, t.

It can be framed as;

number of hours she work in Babysitting plus Number of hours she work in tutoring should be less than or equal to 8.

Expressing in mathematical form we get;

`b+t\leq 8`

Hence the Inequality is given as
`b+t\leq 8`.