Question

Suppose you earn $7.25 per hour working part-time as a florist. Write and solve an inequality to find how many FULL hours (the answer should not include a decmial or a fraction) you must work to earn at least $125. Use h as your variable.

Answer 1

To earn at least $125 while earning $7.25 per hour working as a florist, you must work a minimum of 18 full hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find how many full hours you must work to earn at least $125, we can set up an inequality using the given information. Let h represent the number of full hours worked. Since you earn $7.25 per hour, the inequality can be written as:

7.25h ≥ 125

To solve for h, divide both sides of the inequality by 7.25:

h ≥ 125/7.25

h ≥ 17.24

Since we are looking for a whole number of hours, you must work a minimum of 18 full hours to earn at least $125.