Question

5. Jordan works at the car wash a few hours a week and works mowing lawns for extra money.

Because of his schoolwork, he can't work more than 10 hours per week. Write a rule to see possible
solutions for his work schedule. Let x represent hours at the car wash, and y represent the hours
mowing lawns.

Answer 1

The rule is

x + y ≤ 10

Explanation:

Here, we want to write a rule that can help get solutions for the individual work hours

The number of hours for car wash is x while the number of hours for mowing lawns is y

Since he cannot work more than 10 hours, he can still work less than 10 hours

What we just have is that the addition of both working hours must not be over 10

So the rule to write is;

x + y ≤ 10