A highway has at least one rest stop every 25 miles. Write and solve an inequality to represent the number of rest stops in the first 200 miles of the highway.

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Maggie Walter

10 November, 05:18

A highway has at least one rest stop every 25 miles. Write and solve an inequality to represent the number of rest stops in the first 200 miles of the highway.

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Monty · Answer 1

To represent all the possible number of rest stops, you will set up the following inequality where x is the number of rest stops.

25x > 200

25 25

x > 8

The number of rest stops in the first 200 miles would be 8 or more.