Question

xavier is working two summer jobs, making $14 per hour life guarding and $15 per hour tutoring. Xavier earn at least $170 this week. write an inequality that would represent the possible values for the number of hours life guarding l, and the number of hours tutoring t, that Xavier can work in a given week.

Answer 1

Answer: 14I + 15t ≤ 170

Explanation:

Let I be the number of hours life guarding, and t be the number of hours tutoring(stated in the questions). At least is means this number is greater or equal to, which used the symbol ≤.

14I + 15t ≤ 170