Homework? I see... Ok so,
I usually take the main points out of word problems:
- fishing
-no less than 18 in long
-write an inequality
So Inequalities are SUPER simple when you get them... The inequalities I know are:
#> = greater than, < = Less than, <= =Less than or equal, >= = greater than, != =Not equal #
So when it says less than, it means <. So put in a variable for the missing number. I am going to choose #f# for fish. So 18<f. Now the inequalities stand for what it is bigger/ less than. So you can also switch it around, f>18. Think of this as an Alligator mouth, and the mouth eats the bigger number since #f# is bigger than 18 the alligator would be eating #f#! But in this case if the fish had to be equal to or bigger than it would be the greater to or equal to sign in the middle, which in this case I believe it is. Hope it helped leave comments down below if your confused
