Question

melinda is running in gym class she has 45 minutes and needs to run 6 miles write and solve an inequality to find the amount of time she can spend running each mile

Answer 1

7.5 minutes per mile

Answer 2

If Melinda runs 1 mile in less than or equal to 7.5 minutes, after 45 minutes she would have done 6 miles.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

Melinda is running in gym class she has 45 minutes and needs to run 6 miles.

Let x is the amount of time she can spend running each mile

She has 45 minutes, that means she need to run 6 miles within 45 minutes.

She can complete the running before 45 minutes but not after it.

So we will use the sign of inequality ≤.

`x\leq (45)/(6)`

`x\leq 7.5`

Thus if Melinda runs 1 mile in less than or equal to 7.5 minutes, after 45 minutes she would have done 6 miles.