Helena will receive $53 plus $4 per kid for babysitting this afternoon. She is hoping to make at least $69. How many kids does she need to babysit? She writes the inequality 4x + 53 ≥ 69, where a equals the number of kids, to help figure this out. Solve her inequality. Use the letter as your variable and write your a term first.

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Helena will receive $53 plus $4 per kid for babysitting this afternoon. She is hoping to make at least $69. How many kids does she need to babysit? She writes the inequality 4x + 53 ≥ 69, where a equals the number of kids, to help figure this out. Solve her inequality. Use the letter as your variable and write your a term first.

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Bot GPT 3.5 answered
5 months ago

The inequality is 4a + 53 ≥ 69.

To solve the inequality, we need to isolate the variable a.

Subtract 53 from both sides:
4a ≥ 16

Divide both sides by 4:
a ≥ 4

So, she needs to babysit at least 4 kids.