I have to answer the question: "why are inequalities a more realistic way to model situations than equations" and am having trouble with this.

One reason I thought about is because inequalities are more applicable to real life situations. But other than that, I'm at a loss. Please help.

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your response is good, but says basically the same thing that you are being asked, since "realistic" means "real-life."

Still, why are they more applicable to real-life situations?
the only thing I can think of is because inequalities can be like less than or equal to or greater than or equal to where equations are only equal to. In real life, things aren't always equal to exactly something.

Am I along the right track?