Question

A museum has a maximum occupancy of 700 people. There are 70 employees who work at the museum daily. Write an inequality to express how many people p the museum can hold and not go over maximum occupancy.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Since there are already 70 employees daily, we must first find the true value of people who can use the museum. This can be done by subtracting the two numbers.

700-70 = 630

From here we can set up an inequality using the variable p.

`p\leq 630`

I use the less than or equal sign because the museum can hold 700 people but not one more (701). Hope this helps!