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Expressions and Equations
Up In the Air
Lesson 15-1 Representing Situations with Inequalities
Learning Targets:
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Write inequalities to represent constraints or conditions within problems.
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Use substitution to determine whether a given number makes an
inequality true.
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Graph solution sets of inequalities.
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Given an inequality, write a corresponding real-world problem.
SUGGESTED LEARNING STRATEGIES: Interactive Word Wall,
Marking the Text, Summarizing, Note Taking, Discussion Group,
Activating Prior Knowledge
Geri wants to become a commercial airline pilot someday. She found the
following information while doing research on this career.
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The airplane’s captain must be at least 23 years old.
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The captain must have a minimum of 1500 hours of flying experience.
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By law, pilots can fly a maximum of 100 hours in a month.
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By law, pilots may not fly more than 32 hours during any consecutive
7 days.
Each piece of information that Geri found can be modeled by using an
inequality . Phrases like at least, more than, and a maximum express a
quantity that is greater than another.
1. List some phrases that could be used to express a quantity that is less
than another.
The phrases above, and others like them, are clues to help solve the
problem. They help to explain the rules of the situation.
Let’s look at one of the rules about being an airline pilot.
A captain must be at least 23 years old. The words at least tell you that
someone who is 23 years old can be a pilot. If the person is not 23, then
he or she must be older than 23 to be a pilot.
The inequality modeling this situation is written as follows:
, where x represents the age of the person.
An inequality is a mathematical
statement showing that one
quantity is greater than or less
than another. Inequalities use
these symbols:
> is greater than
< is less than
≥ is greater than or equal to
≤ is less than or equal to
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Activity 15 • Expressions and Equations 187
ACTIVITY 15