For a violin competition, the length of time for a recording must be within 5.5 seconds of the ideal time of 2 minutes 33 seconds. If t represents time in seconds, which inequality best models this situation?

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anonymous · Answer

Can you list the choices you have please?

anonymous · Answer

|t-153| (le) 5.5
|t-233| (le) 5.5
|t+5.5| (le) 158.5
|t+5.5| (le) 227.5

anonymous · Answer

(le) is this symbol, if you didn't know:

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anonymous · Answer

I think its B, but I am not 100 percent sure.

anonymous · Answer

Okay, thanks! I'll let you know whether it was right in a couple minutes.  I have to do the rest of the sheet.

anonymous · Answer

Actually, it was A.  Thanks anyway!

anonymous · Answer

Oh shoot. I did a silly mistake, you should have converted the 2 minutes and 33 seconds to seconds. Sorry about that.