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Carter has a pool that can hold a maximum of 450 gallons of water. The pool already contains 150 gallons of water. Carter begins to add water at a rate of 8 gallons per minute. He wants to know how many minutes he needs to reach its maximum capacity. Let m represent the number of minutes. almost forgot:

Write an inequality that represents this problem.

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450-150=300
300 divided by 8= m
M= 37.5 minutes
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