Question

Jake began the day with 6 dollars in his wallet. After withdrawing some money from the bank and adding it to his wallet, he had 37 dollars. What inequality represents this situation?

a) x≤31
b) x≥31
c) x≤37
d) x≥37

Answer 1

The correct inequality that represents the situation is x ≥ 31.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this situation, let's represent the amount Jake withdraws from the bank as 'x'. Since he started with 6 dollars and added 'x' dollars to his wallet, he would have 6 + x dollars. According to the question, he had a total of 37 dollars in his wallet, so we can set up the inequality:

6 + x ≥ 37

To solve this inequality, we subtract 6 from both sides:

x ≥ 31

Therefore, the correct inequality that represents this situation is x ≥ 31.