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a typical human stomach can hold up to 4 cups of food write an inequality to represent how many cups of food a stomach can hold

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Up to means "less than or equal to".

c = stomach capacity

c ≤ 4
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Answer:
x\leq4, where x is the number of cups of food a stomach can hold.

Explanation:

Let x be the number of cups of food a stomach can hold.

The given statement says "A typical human stomach can hold up to 4 cups of food".

It means that a human stomach can hold less than or equals to 4 cups of food.

Therefore, the required inequality will be :_


x\leq4, where x is the number of cups of food a stomach can hold.

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