Question

Word problem help please? Connie needs to burn at least 500 calories at the gym today. She can burn 20 calories per minute on the treadmill (t) and 10 calories per minute on the elliptical trainer (e). Which inequality below can be used to find the possible combinations of time she could spend on each machine and still meet her goal of burning at least 500 calories?

20t - 10e >= 500

20t + 10e <= 500

20t - 10e <= 500

20t + 10e >= 500

Answer 1

Connie needs to burn at least 500 calories

Answer 2

wat does that mean ?

Answer 3

she can burn 500 or more calories. But she cannot leave gym burning less than 500 calories right ?

Answer 4

yes @ganeshie8

Answer 5

So,


calories burned >= 500

Answer 6

She can burn 20 calories per minute on the treadmill (t) and 10 calories per minute on the elliptical trainer (e)

that means,

20t + 10e

Answer 7

so it would be D? @ganeshie8

Answer 8

Yes !

Answer 9

yayy thank you(: @ganeshie8

Answer 10

np :) gw !!!