Solving Inequalities

Katherin Juarez
Mr.Cerritos
Period 2
12-13-17
Word Problem
Rylee has $500 in a savings account at the beginning of the summer. He wants to
have at least $200 in the account by the end of summer. He withdraws $25 each
week for food, clothes, and movies.

● Write an equality that represents Rylee's situation.

● How many weeks can Rylee withdraw money from her account? Justify
your answer.
strategies/Methods
● Read through the entire problem.
Keep in mind:
● Highlight the important information and keywords that
● at least - means greater than or equal to
you need to solve the problem.
● no more than - means less than or equal to
● Identify your variables.
● more than - means greater than
● Write the equation or inequality.
● less than - means less than
● Solve.

● Check or justify your answer.

Step 1
❏ Highlight the important information in this problem .
❏ At least is the key word that notes that this problem must be written as an inequality.
Step 2
Identify your variable. What don’t you know? The question verifies that you don’t
know how many weeks.

Let W = The Number of weeks

 Step 3
Write your inequality.

500-25w 200

I know you are saying “How did you get that?”

500 - 25w 200

Started withdraw 25 each At least End of

with 500 s week summer
at the amount
beginnin
g of the
summer
Step 4:
● Subtract 500 from both sides
500 - 25w 200
500 - 500 - 25w - 500

-25w - 300
● Divide by -25
-25 -25

W 12
● Reverse your sign since you divided by a

negative number
Step 5: Justify (Prove your answer mathematically)
Im going to prove that largest number of weeks that it could be which is 12.

500 - 25w 200

500 - 25(12) 200

Since 200 is equal 200, my answer is correct.
500 - 300 200 Any more than 12 weeks and his account
balance would be less than $200. Any number
of weeks less than 12 and his account would
200 200 stay above $200.
Final answer:
W 12
The number of weeks that Rylee can withdraw money from her account is 12 or
less.
GPO’s
Investigate the World
In this project I used the GPO investigate
the world because I researched ways on
how to explain in detail the word problem of
an specific topic which was solving
inequalities.
Communicating Ideas
I am using the GPO of communicating ideas because
showing a method on how i typically solve this kind of
problem, since everyone has their own strategies Im
out mine out there for those listening.
sources
● http://www.purplemath.com/modules/ineqsolv.htm
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgDe_D8ojxw