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TSI Math: Creating an Inequality from Mathematical Terms 5 Views


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Katie and Jill take turns swimming laps in a pool. In total, Katie swims twice as many meters as Jill. If the girls want to swim more than 360 meters combined, which inequality represents how many meters x Jill needs to swim to reach that goal?


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All right yes i'm asked members here we go Another

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word problem for you In the siri's katie and jill

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take turns swimming laps in a pool In total katie

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swims twice as many meters is jill If the girls

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want to swim more than three hundred sixty meters combined

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like who does that Which inequality represents how many meters

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x jill needs to swim to reach that goal Phrases

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like more than and twice as many sound like everyday

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phrases but both are encoded tightly with mathematical clues just

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waiting to be cracked very specifics You gotta be exact

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when you describe them start with a phrase twice a

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cz many well for every meter jill swims katie swims

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too We don't know how many meters jail was able

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tio doggy paddle though so that value is x The

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number of meters katie swims is two x will combine

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the girls swim x plus two Acts or 3 acts

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meters If you get that everything is a smooth sailing

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or swimming or whatever Whatever value three ex winds up

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being it must be mohr than three sixty if the

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girls want to meet their goal well the problem doesn't

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say anything about three sixty being adequate so use the

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greater than symbol not the greater than or equal to

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symbol Yeah so that that d there would be wrong

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it's gotta be c three Acts is simply greater than

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3 sixty not equal to it and that's the accurate

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representation of the number of meters jail needs to cover 00:01:28.064 --> [endTime] that's it we're done

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