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Inequalities word problems | 6th grade | Khan Academy


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·Nov 10, 2024

We're told that Eric is shorter than Preethi. Preethi is 158 centimeters tall. Write an inequality that compares Eric's height in centimeters, E, to Preethi's height. Pause this video and see if you can do that.

All right, so we have Eric's height, which we are using the variable capital E for. How does it compare? It says Eric is shorter than Preethi, so Eric's height is going to be less than whatever Preethi's height is, which is 158 centimeters. You could think about it on a number line too. If I were to draw a number line like this, and this is 158 centimeters, Preethi's height, Eric's is going to be less than that because he is shorter. So it would be all of the values that are to the left of—let me do this in another color—that are less than that.

Just like that, let's do another example here. We are told that Sydney wears skirts when the temperature is warmer than 25 degrees Celsius. Write an inequality that describes T, the temperatures at which Sydney wears skirts. So again, pause this video and see if you can have a go at that.

All right, so when does Sydney wear skirts? When the temperature is warmer than 25 degrees Celsius. Now, warmer means that the temperature is higher than 25 degrees Celsius or that the temperature is greater than 25 degrees Celsius. And we're using capital T to denote temperature. So we would say capital T needs to be higher than 25 degrees or greater than 25 degrees Celsius. So T is greater than 25.

Let's do one last example here. So here we are told that Lola and Haley are running a race. Lola finishes the race in 53 seconds. Haley finishes after Lola. Write an inequality that represents H, Haley's finish time in seconds. Pause the video and see if you can think about this.

All right, so how does Haley compare to Lola? Haley finishes after Lola, so what does that mean about Haley's time? Well, that means that Haley is going to take more time than Lola to finish the race. So whatever Lola's time is, Haley's time is going to be longer or more or greater than. So Haley's time is going to be greater than Lola's time, which is 53 seconds because Haley finishes after.

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