How do you write the inequality for "Josephine sleeps more than 7 hours each night"?
1 Answer
Oct 9, 2015
t is duration of Josephine's sleep each night. The unit is hours.
Explanation:
You are comparing two things. They are "how long Josephine sleeps" and "7 hours".
We don't know how long Josephine sleeps, so let's make this a variable called t. We don't have a number for this.
The relationship between the two things is "more". According to the sentence, Josephine's sleep duration (t) is "more" than 7 hours.
So the inequality is as follows:
variable, relation, the other thing you are comparing to.
t, more, 7
more is
Then we get
