A museum just opened a new dinosaur exhibit. The exhibit is very popular and they have huge crowds during the first week. They will set a record for weekly ticket sales if they sell more than 285 tickets on Saturday. Write an inequality to represent the number of ticket sales on Saturday that are needed to set a record, t.
Q. A museum just opened a new dinosaur exhibit. The exhibit is very popular and they have huge crowds during the first week. They will set a record for weekly ticket sales if they sell more than 285 tickets on Saturday. Write an inequality to represent the number of ticket sales on Saturday that are needed to set a record, t.
Understand the problem: Understand the problem.The museum will set a record if they sell more than 285 tickets on Saturday. We need to express this condition as an inequality.
Define the variable: Define the variable.Let's use the variable t to represent the number of ticket sales on Saturday.
Write the inequality: Write the inequality.To set a record, the number of tickets sold on Saturday must be greater than 285. Therefore, the inequality is:t > 285
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