Question

At a park, it costs $9.75 an hour to rent a bicycle. It costs $7.25 an hour to rent a scooter. Aaron has a coupon

for $10 off the rental of a bicycle. He wants to know after how many hours it will cost more to rent the bicycle
than the scooter.
Should he write an equation or an inequality to help him solve this situation?

Why?

Define the variable:

Write the equation or inequality:

Answer 1

4x

Explanation:

Answer 2

Explanation:

I would write an inequality at this point

The variable would be the amount of hours(x) it would take for the costs to tip the scales

9.75x-10≥7.25x

-10≥-2.5x

4≥x

It would take them 4 hours for the costs to be equal, so anything higher than this would work