Question

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Julia is allowed to watch no more than 5 hours of television a week. So far this week, she has watched 1.5 hours. Write and solve an inequality to show how many hours of television Julia can still watch this week.

Answer 1

If she has already watched 1.5 hours and she can only watch 5 hours per week, then we have the inequality:

1.5 + T ≤ 5

where T is is the number of hours she can watch more before reaching her limit

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