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Several motorcyclists were pulled over by a police officer for speeding one evening. Each of the tickets that the officer gave was over $180. The cost of a speeding ticket includes an automatic fine of $75 as well as $7 for every mile per hour over the speed limit.

Fill in the blanks to model the cost of the speeding tickets. Use x to represent the number of miles per hour over the speed limit each motorcyclist was going.

The inequality
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models the problem.

The solution to the inequality is
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.

This means that each motorcyclist was going
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miles per hour over the speed limit.

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User Icube
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Answer:

x<15

Explanation:

75+7x<180

subtract 75 from 180

7x<105

divide 105 by 7

x<15

Hope this helps!

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User Vasil Dininski
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