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At the beginning of the school year, Jamie had $500 in her savings account. She wants to have at least $200 left in the account at the end of the school year. Each week, she withdraws $30 for spending money. To determine how many weeks she can spend $30, Jamie wrote and solved this inequality.

500 − 30x ≥ 200
−500 −500
−30x ≥ −300
x ≥ 10
Review Jamie’s work. What was her error?

User Uj Corb
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Her error was that she misplaced the numbers

-30x ≥ -300

its supose

to be -30x ≥ 200

User Justin Ludwig
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Answer:

Jamie should have reversed the inequality when using the division property of inequality.

Explanation:

At the beginning of the school year, Jamie had $500 in her savings account. She wants-example-1
User Houqp
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