The average weight of a horse is 85 pounds at birth. They grow to a maximum of 1300 pounds. Write and solve an inequality to find how many pounds the horse may gain from birth t…

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Gregor Albert · Answer 1 · 2021-01-29T09:50:23+0000

Answer:

85 + x
$\leq 1300$

Explanation:

85 pounds at birth

1300 pounds at adulthood

So let call x is the pounds gap between this above 2 milestones, (x is always positive ) we can form inequality:

85 + x
$\leq 1300$