SOLUTION: It takes 24 minutes to set up a candy making machine. Once the machine is set up, it produces 30 candies per minute. Use an inequality to find the number of candies that can be pro

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Question 1086532: It takes 24 minutes to set up a candy making machine. Once the machine is set up, it produces 30 candies per minute. Use an inequality to find the number of candies that can be produced in 7 hours if the machine has not yet been set up.
Answer by ikleyn(52802) About Me  (Show Source):
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Inequality ? ? ?

Why, if I can easily write the exact expression:

        the number of candies that can be produced in 7 hours if the machine has not yet been set up = (7*60 - 24)*30.

        7*60-24 is the time in minutes the machine works.


OK, I can write in the form of inequality

        the number of candies that can be produced in 7 hours if the machine has not yet been set up <= (7*60 - 24)*30,

allowing some delay . . .