Question

An elevator can carry 800 pounds of weight. A student weighing 95 pounds gets on the elevator. Write and solve an inequality to represent the remaining weight that can be added.

Answer 1

The inequality is $95+x \le 800$ because we start off with 95 pounds and then add on x more (x is some positive number). The expression 95+x is the total weight. We want this total weight to be less than or equal to 800. In other words, 800 is the highest we can go. Or put another way, we can have 800 or smaller.

To solve that inequality, subtract 95 from both sides and you end up with this inequality $x \le 705$ meaning that we can add up to 705 pounds of extra people or things to this elevator.

Answer 2

It would be 95x less than or equal to sign 800