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Rogan is burning a music CD. The CD holds at most 70minutes of music. Rogan has already selected 45 minutesof music. Write and solve an inequality to find howmany more minutes of music Rogan can select.

User Bastiaan Quast
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Let x be more minutes of music that Rogan select.

The inequality for x is,


x+45\leq70

Simplify the inequality for x.


\begin{gathered} x+45-45\leq70-45 \\ x\leq25 \end{gathered}

The inequality is,


x+45\leq70

Rogan can select 25 more minutes of music.

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