SOLUTION: A Spanish teacher requires that students devote no less than 1 hour a day to their homework assignments. Write an inequality that describes the number of minutes m a student shoul

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Question 167768: A Spanish teacher requires that students devote no less than 1 hour a day to their homework assignments. Write an inequality that describes the number of minutes m a student should spend each week on Spanish homework.
I got m is greater or equal to but my answer was 120, where as the book said 420 minutes
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Note: 1 hr = 60 min

So if the "teacher requires that students devote no less than 1 hour a day to their homework assignments", this means that the number of minutes 'm' a student should spend per day is m%3E=60 (so they should do homework for 60 or more minutes)


Now since there are 7 days in a week, this means that you simply multiply 60 by 7 to get 60%2A7=420


So the inequality becomes m%3E=420 which means that students should spend at least 420 minutes a week doing Spanish homework.