Question

The least number of customers in a shop at any time during the day was 15. Fran represented this situation with the inequality c > 15, where c is the number of customers in the shop. Is Fran correct? Explain.

Answer 1

Fran is incorrect.

The inequality is c ≥ 15

Explanation:

Answer 2

Fran was incorrect.

Correct representation:
`c \geq 15`, where c is the number of customer during any time of day.

Explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

Fran used the given inequality to represent the number of customers in a shop at any time.

`c > 15`

where c is the number of customer during any time of day.

The least number of customers in a shop at any time during the day was 15.

Thus there could be 15 or greater than 15 customers in shop during any ime of day.

Thus, Fran was incorrect.

The correct representation is given by the inequality

`c \geq 15`

where c is the number of customer during any time of day.