Question

Nicole Swims Forty Meters Per Minute, And She Wants To Swim At Least Two Thousand Meters This Morning, How Long Will She Have To Swim

A) Write An Inequality To Represent The Situation
B) Solve The Inequality To Find How Long She Will Have To Swim

Answer 1

Nicole will have to swim for at least 50 minutes to swim at least 2000 meters.

Step-by-step explanation:

To represent the situation, we can let 'x' represent the time Nicole needs to swim in minutes. Since she swims at a rate of 40 meters per minute, she will swim a distance of 40x meters in 'x' minutes. To find out how long she will have to swim to reach at least 2000 meters, we can set up the following inequality:

40x ≥ 2000

To solve the inequality, we divide both sides by 40:

x ≥ 50

Therefore, Nicole will have to swim for at least 50 minutes to swim at least 2000 meters.