Question

In London today, four times the high temperature was more than twice the high temperature plus

sixty-six. In interval form, what are the possible temperatures

Answer 1

Let's define the high temperature as T.

We know that:

"four times T, was more than 2*T plus 66°C"

(i assume that the temperature is in °C)

We can write this inequality as:

4*T > 2*T + 66°C

Now we just need to solve this for T.

subtracting 2*T in both sides, we get:

4*T - 2*T > 2*T + 66°C - 2*T

2*T > 66°C

Now we can divide both sides by 2:

2*T/2 > 66°C/2

T > 33°C

So T was larger than 33°C

Notice that T = 33°C is not a solution of the inequality, then we should use the symbol ( for the set notation.

Then the range of possible temperatures is:

(33°C, ...)

Where we do not have an upper limit, so we could write this as:

(33°C, ∞°C)

(ignoring the fact that ∞°C is something impossible because it means infinite energy, but for the given problem it works)