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Svetlana's hair is 4 centimeters long. Her hair grows 1.51 centimeters per month. Svetlana wants her hair to grow so that it is at least 7 centimeters long. Write an inequality to determine the number of months, m, it will take Svetlana's hair to grow so it is at least 7 centimeters long.

Svetlana's hair is 4 centimeters long. Her hair grows 1.51 centimeters per month. Svetlana-example-1
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4+(1.5xM)(>/=)7 whereas M=2
/Less than or equal to\
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Two months. If it takes one month to grow 1.5 centimeters and you add 1.5 with 1.5 two months it is three and add there to her existing hair length it would be 7 centimeters
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