Question

Express the statement "An elevator can carry no more than 3 people" as an inequality.

a) E < 3
b) E ≥ 3
c) E = 3
d) E > 3

Answer 1

The statement "An elevator can carry no more than 3 people" is expressed as the inequality 'E ≤ 3', meaning the number of people the elevator can carry is less than or equal to 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

To express the statement "An elevator can carry no more than 3 people" as an inequality, we will assign a variable to represent the number of people the elevator can carry. Let's use E to represent the number of people. The statement tells us that the elevator can carry 3 people at most but can carry less than that. Therefore, the number of people E must be less than or equal to 3. This is written as an inequality, which in this case is E ≤ 3.

So, the correct inequality to represent the statement is:

E ≤ 3

This means option b) E ≥ 3 is the answer to the question.