Question

A local high school requires at least one adult chaperone for every 12 students on any field trip. The principal uses the inequality y>(with a minus under greater sign)x/12 to verify that this rule is met. The ordered pair (50, 5) is in the solution set of the inequality. What does (50, 5) represent?

a.5 adult chaperones and 50 students going on the field trip
b.5 students and 50 adult chaperones going on the field trip
c.50 people going on the field trip, 5 of whom are adult chaperones
d.50 people going on the field trip, 5 of whom are students

Answer 1

its A

Explanation:

Answer 2

Since x represents the number of students, and y represents the number of adult chaperones (and x does not include y), the best answer is A, that there are x = 50 students on the field trip, and they are accompanied by y = 5 chaperones.
Note the difference with choice c, which says that 50 is the total (45 students, 5 adults).