Nicole has already biked kilometers. She will bike more than additional kilometers. Let's look at the possible total numbers of kilometers Nicole will bike.

Question

Fill in the blanks to write an inequality.

Answer 1

Hi Maria, looks like there's some numbers missing from your question. I'll do a quick example using letters in place of where your numbers seem to be, so you can follow along with my explanation.

"Nicole has already biked X kilometers. She will bike more than Y additional kilometers. Let's look at the possible total number of kilometers Nicole will bike."

Another way to read this is Nicole will bike at least more than Y additional kilometers on top of the X she already biked.

Let's represent the total number of kilometers Nicole will bike as Z > X + Y.

Why greater than? Because Nicole will bike more than Y kilometers on top of the existing X kilometers.

Why is the symbol not greater than or equal to (≥)? Because Nicole bikes more than Y kilometers, so she won't bike exactly Y kilometers in our scenario.

Hope this helps!