Question

Trey runs each lap in 8 minutes. He will run at least 9 laps today. What are the possible numbers of minutes he will run today? Use t for the number of minutes he will run today. Write your answer as an inequality solved for t.​

Answer 1

To find the possible numbers of minutes Trey will run today, multiply the number of laps by the time it takes to run one lap.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the possible numbers of minutes Trey will run today, we need to multiply the number of laps by the time it takes to run one lap. Since Trey runs each lap in 8 minutes, the total number of minutes he will run today can be found by multiplying 8 by the number of laps.

Let's use the variable t to represent the number of minutes Trey will run today. Since he will run at least 9 laps, we can write the inequality as:

t ≥ 8 * 9

Simplifying, we have:

t ≥ 72

This means that the possible numbers of minutes Trey will run today are greater than or equal to 72.

Answer 2

72
`\leq`t

Solution:

8(9)
`\leq` t

If he can run more than 9 laps today, but might not, then the total number of minutes can be more then or equal to nine laps.