Question

a step on a stairway is at least 8 inches high. Write and solve an inequality to represent the minimum number of steps between floors that are 10 feet apart

Answer 1

If a step is "at least" 8 inches high, the minimum number of steps is theoretically 1, because that 1 step could be a 10-foot high step.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The hight of the step is

h ≥ 8 inches

If we take that in one feet we have twelve inches

The hight between floors are H=10ft = 120 inches

If we named number of steps with n, the appropriate inequality is

n ≤ 120/8 => n ≤ 15

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