Julia is allowed to watch no more than 5 hours of television a week. So far, this week, she has watched 1.5 hours. Write and solve an inequality to show how many hours of television Julia can still watch this week.
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5-1.5=3.5 hours can still watch.
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"how many hours...can still watch" is an
unknown which we will assign as "x",
"no more than 5" means "≤ 5",
"watched 1.5 hours" means "+1.5" (add 1.5
hours to the unknown value OR subtract 1.5
hours form the total).
So let's write our equation...
x + 1.5 ≤ 5
Always look for keywords and phrases, and translate them into mathmatical terms.
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