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Wendy is x years old and Jay is six years younger. The sum of their ages is less than 30 write an inequality involving x and solve it.
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Question 1119630: This is a word problem.
Wendy is x years old and Jay is six years younger. The sum of their ages is less than 30 write an inequality involving x and solve it.
My text book doesn't have any examples of how to express inequalities from worded problems. The best that I came up with was x - 6 < 30 Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
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Wendy is x years old and Jay is six years younger. The sum of their ages is less than 30 write an inequality involving x and solve it.
My text book doesn't have any examples of how to express inequalities from worded problems. The best that I came up with was x - 6 < 30
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Wendy's age, x
Jay's age, x-6
Sum of their ages: x+(x-6)
Sum of their ages IS LESS THAN 30:
Simplify this inequality ( and solve).
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