Question

A factory can work its employees no more than 5 days a week, and no less than 2 days per

week. Create an inequality to represent the range of days an employee can work. Solve the
inequality to determine the range in hours. Show all of your work and explain each of your
steps. Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Answer: 2 <= X <= 5

Explanation:

Given that a factory can work its employees no more than 5 days a week, that is, less than or equal to 5 days.

And no less than 2 days per week. That is, greater than or equal to 2 days.

Let X be the number of days employee can work. Then, according to the first statement, X <= 5 and according to the second statement, X >= 2

An inequality to represent the range of days an employee can work will be

2 <= X <= 5

Therefore, an employee can work for 2 days, 3 days, 4 days and 5 days