You are trying to decide if it is worth the investment to make the cakes if it takes 2.5 hours to make each cake and you have 200 hours this summer to devote to creating your product. Write an inequality that represents your time constraint.

Question

*Use x as the variable

Answer 1

The inequality that represents the time constraint is:

2.5x ≤ 200

Explanation:
We assume that x represents the number of cakes made. Since it takes 2.5 hours to make each cake, we multiply 2.5 by x to find the total time spent making cakes (2.5x). This needs to be less than or equal to the available time of 200 hours.