To protect the crab population, lawmakers prevent crabbers from fishing crabs that are too small. State law requires that crabbers throw back any male crab that does not meet a minimum length of 5 inches. Male crabs that are a minimum of 5 inches in length can be hauled in.

a. Let c represent the size of a crab that must be thrown back under the law.
b. Explain how you know you chose the right inequality symbol for the inequality you wrote in part a.
c. Use full sentences to explain what the graph of the inequality in part a looks like. Be sure to include the direction of the arrow and

Question

To protect the crab population, lawmakers prevent crabbers from fishing crabs that are too small. State law requires that crabbers throw back any male crab that does not meet a minimum length of 5 inches. Male crabs that are a minimum of 5 inches in length can be hauled in. 

a. Let c represent the size of a crab that must be thrown back under the law. 
b. Explain how you know you chose the right inequality symbol for the inequality you wrote in part a. 
c. Use full sentences to explain what the graph of the inequality in part a looks like. Be sure to include the direction of the arrow and