Question

For the kiddie teacup ride at a carnival a person needs to be over 36 inches and at most 60 inches tall. Write an inequality that describes all the heights that are eligible to ride

Answer 1

Given:

For the kiddie teacup ride at a carnival a person needs to be over 36 inches and at most 60 inches tall.

To find:

The inequality that describes all the heights that are eligible to ride.

Solution:

Let h represents the heights that are eligible to ride.

For the kiddie teacup ride at a carnival a person needs to be over 36 inches. It means, height should be greater than 36 inches.

`h>36` ...(i)

For the kiddie teacup ride at a carnival a person needs to be at most 60 inches tall.

`h\leq 60` ...(ii)

Using (i) and (ii), we get

`36<h\leq 60`

Therefore, the required inequality is
`36<h\leq 60`.