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Elena earns $10.50 Per hour as a server working x hours per week She also earns $8.50 per hour editing poetry or Y hours per week Elena’s needs to make at least $125 to pay her cell phone bill but she has at most 17 total hours to work per week with her Bizzy college schedule the system of linear inequalities modeling the situation is shown

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Answer:
X+Y\leq17


10.50X+8.50Y\geq125

Explanation:

Given: Elena earns $10.50 per hour as a server working x hours per week .She also earns $8.50 per hour editing poetry or Y hours per week.

Total money she wants = at least $125

Total hours she can spent at most 17.

So, the required linear inequalities modeling the situation will be:


X+Y\leq17


10.50X+8.50Y\geq125

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