Claire works two jobs; she works 54 hours in one week with these two jobs and makes $10 an hour. She is trying to save up for a trip that cost her $5000. She has set aside $1500 already. Write an inequality to represent the minimum amount of weeks she needs to work to save at least 5000.

Answer 1

Let x be the minimum amount of weeks Claire needs to work to save at least $5000.

Since Claire works 54 hours per week and makes $10 per hour, she earns 54 * 10 = $<<54*10=540>>540 per week.
Therefore, the amount of money she saves in x weeks is 540x.

To meet her goal of saving at least $5000, the inequality is:
540x + 1500 ≥ 5000