SOLUTION: Suppose your sister wants to qualify for a regional gymnastics competition. At today's competition she must score at least 34.0 points. She scored 8.8 on the vault, 7.9 on the bala

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: Suppose your sister wants to qualify for a regional gymnastics competition. At today's competition she must score at least 34.0 points. She scored 8.8 on the vault, 7.9 on the balance beam, an 8.2 on the uneven parallel bars. The event that remains is the floor exercise. a. Write and solve an inequality that models the information. b. Explain what the solution means in terms of the original situation. c. Open-Ended Write three scores your sister could make that would allow her to qualify for the regional gymnastics competition. This question is from textbook Algebra

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7.9+8.8+8.2+X=34
24.9+X=34
X=34-24.9
X=9.1 ANSWER FOR THE SCORE NEEDED IN THE FINAL EVENT TO QUALIFY.
THE ORIGINAL SITUATION: SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER IN THE FIRST THREE EVENTS.
SHE COULD SCORE 92, 93 OR 95 IN THE FINAL EVENT & QUALIFY.