A movie theater allows fewer than 80 people at a screening. Eight employees will attend the next screening along with n groups of people. Each group will have 4 people.

Which inequality can be used to show the situation?

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Roberto Hays

Mathematics

2 May, 07:25

A movie theater allows fewer than 80 people at a screening. Eight employees will attend the next screening along with n groups of people. Each group will have 4 people.

Which inequality can be used to show the situation?

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Enrique Stokes · Answer 1

The total number of people that is going to attend the screening is equal to the 8 employees and the n groups with 4 people in each group, the inequality that best represent this is,

8 + 4n < 80

Dividing both sides of the inequality by 4, we get an answer of,

2 + n < 20

A movie theater allows fewer than 80 people at a screening. Eight employees will attend the next screening along with n groups of people. Each group will have 4 people.Which inequality can be used to show the situation?

A movie theater allows fewer than 80 people at a screening. Eight employees will attend the next screening along with n groups of people. Each group will have 4 people.

Which inequality can be used to show the situation?