Problemas
11. GRADE POINT AVERAGE Emil has a 3.14 GPA.By how many points must Emil increase his GPA to have a GPA of at least 3.75?Write and solve an inequality to represent the situation.
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Jacobo
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Emil needs to increase his GPA by at least 0.61 points.
Explicación
## Step 1The problem involves finding out how many points Emil needs to increase his GPA from 3.14 to at least 3.75. This can be represented by an inequality.## Step 2Let's denote the number of points Emil needs to increase his GPA as
. The inequality that represents this situation is
.## Step 3To solve this inequality, we need to isolate
. We can do this by subtracting 3.14 from both sides of the inequality.###
## Step 4Perform the subtraction on the right side of the inequality.###
This means that Emil needs to increase his GPA by at least 0.61 points to reach a GPA of at least 3.75.