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Carly is 3 times her brother's age. the sum of their ages is no more than 24 years. enter an inequality that can be used to represent this situation in the first box, where x represents carly's brother's age. enter the oldest age carly's brother can be in the second box.

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x = the brother
c = carly

c = 3x
c + x < = 24

now we sub
3x + x < = 24
4x < = 24
x < = 24/4
x < = 6 ...oldest age the brother can be is 6


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