Levon has 45 minutes until he needs to leave for his piano lesson. He spends 27 minutes watching an episode of his favorite TV show. Then he wants to play a game on his tablet. At most, how long can Levon spend playing the game before he need to leave?

Graph the inequality.

1 answer

Levon has 45-27=18 minutes left after watching TV.
Let x be the amount of time Levon can spend playing the game.
The inequality representing this situation is:
x ≤ 18 (he cannot spend more than 18 minutes playing the game)
Graph:

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0 x