Writing Inequalities from Context

Writing Inequalities from Context

Introduction

Writing and solving inequalities helps students represent situations in which values are limited by a maximum or minimum amount. Inequalities are useful in everyday life when comparing quantities, staying wit...

Helen visited the tulip garden and thought about how many tulips she could buy.

Each tulip costs 3 dollars, and Helen has 30 dollars to spend. She lets t represent the number of tulips she could buy.

To find the total cost of the tulips, she wrote the expression 3 times t.

Since she could spend 30 dollars or less, she wrote t...