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joelas
Oct 25, 2010, 01:59 PM
Aniel is saving for a iPod touch that cost $299.he earns $7.25 an hours tutoring at an elementary school.write an enequality that could be used to determined the number of totals hours that aniels must work in order to purchase the iPod touch
Unknown008
Oct 25, 2010, 11:00 PM
The total money Aniel earns will be equal to the number of hours worked times the money earned for each worked hour.
We therefore get:
7.25 n > 299
Solve the equality now.
tmeunknown
Nov 4, 2010, 09:01 AM
$7.25x=$299
x=Number of hour worked.
Unknown008
Nov 4, 2010, 10:10 AM
$7.25x=$299
x=Number of hour worked.
This is not right since the questions asks for an inequality and not an equation.