Question

A class has $90 to spend on a field trip. The field trip costs $2.50 per person and there will be 5 chaperones on the trip. One student used the inequality 90 greater-than 2.50 (x + 5) to find x, the number of students that the field trip budget could accommodate. Which best describes the error in the student’s inequality?

Answer 1

Explanation:

x is the number of students

(x+5) is the number of students and chaperons

$2.50·(x+5) is the amount of money the number of students and chaperons will pay for the trip, and that number should be less or equal than $90 because those are all the money they have

2.50(x+5) ≤ 90 which is the same as 90 ≥ 2.50(x+5)

The inequality "90 greater-than 2.50 (x + 5) "

90 > 2.50(x+5) is an error becase it excludes the possibility that the trip can cost exact $90 so we need not just greater than > , yet greater and equal than ≥ sign

90 ≥ 2.50(x+5)