For a scientific experiment, a physicist must make sure that the temperature of a metal does not get colder than - 75°C or the metal will not be usable. The physicist changes the metal's temperature at a steady rate of - 5°C per hour.

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Let t represent time in hours. Enter an inequality. Use the fact that the rate of change in temperature times the number of hours equals the final temperature.

The inequality is?

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Jamal Smith · Answer 1

If t₀ is the initial temperature of the metal then after time t hours the temperature will be t₀-5t, which must not go below - 75℃.

So t₀-5t≥-75.