Question

The average weight of a horse is 85 pounds at birth. They grow to a maximum of 1300 pounds. Write and solve an inequality to find how many pounds the horse may gain from birth to adulthood.

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

85 + x
`\leq 1300`

Explanation:

85 pounds at birth

1300 pounds at adulthood

So let call x is the pounds gap between this above 2 milestones, (x is always positive ) we can form inequality:

85 + x
`\leq 1300`