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There are 852 students enrolled at the children's elementary school. The

school building has the capacity to hold no more than 1000 students. Write
and solve an inequality that you can use to find out how many more students
the school can safely enroll?

User ZelkiN
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Answer:

n < 852

Step-by-step explanation:

n is the number of other students that can safely enroll. There already are 852 students in the building. n < 1000 wouldn't work, so the answer is n < 852.

If you want to know what n is, here is the answer: n = 148.

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