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Ryan is mowing lawns. It takes him 1/2 an hour to mow one lawn. He has already spent 1 1/2 hours mowing lawns today. He can only mow today for a total of 5 hours at most. The given inequality can be used to find x, the number of lawns he can still mow today.

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he can mow 7 more lawns
he’s already mowed 3 lawns (1.5hours) 5-1.5 = 3.5 there are 7 half hours in 3.5 hours so he can mow 7 more lawns
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