Patricia works at a grocery store part time and earns $9 per hour. In addition to working at the grocery store, she tutors middle school students and earns $15 per hour. Her grocery store job requires her to work more than twice the number of hours she tutors. If Patricia wants to earn more than $500 total from both jobs this week, which inequalities can be used to find the number of hours, g, she should work at the grocery store and the number of hours, t, she should tutor?

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Patricia works at a grocery store part time and earns $9 per hour.  In addition to working at the grocery store, she tutors middle school students and earns $15 per hour.  Her grocery store job requires her to work more than twice the number of hours she tutors.  If Patricia wants to earn more than $500 total from both jobs this week, which inequalities can be used to find the number of hours, g, she should work at the grocery store and the number of hours, t, she should tutor?

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