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.

Answer 1

@sisgirl102 What size crabs are thrown back?

Answer 2

@sisigirl02

Answer 3

the ones under 5 inches

Answer 4

Yes, so

c < 5

Answer 5

crab that does not meet a minimum length of 5 inches

means that a crab smaller than 5 inches is thrown back.

It is not c ≤ 5 because the 5" crabs can be kept.