A teacher is making a history test composed of the same number of multiple-choice questions as short-answer questions. She estimates it will take students an average of 2 minutes to complete each multiple-choice question and an average of 3.5 minutes to complete each short-answer question. Write an inequality to determine how many questions, n, the teacher can include if the test must take students less than 45 minutes to complete.

The inequality is

Step-by-step explanation:

Total time:

The total time to complete the test is the sum of the number of multiple-choice questions multiplied by the time it takes to solve each and the number of short-answer questions multiply by the time it takes to solve each.

In this question:

Same number(n) of both.

Multiple-choice takes 2 minutes, short-answer takes 3.5 minutes. The total time is given by:

Write an inequality to determine how many questions, n, the teacher can include if the test must take students less than 45 minutes to complete.?

This means that:

So

The inequality is

a 4/6 = 9/12   not proportional

step-by-step explanation:

to find which are not proportional, we can use cross products

if it is true, they are proportional.   if it is not true, they are not proportional.

a 4/6 = 9/12

4* 12 = 6*9

48 = 54

not this is not proportional  

b 2/3 = 12/18  

2* 18 = 3 * 12

36 = 36

this is proportional

c 5/4 = 10/8  

5*8 = 4*10

40 = 40

this is proportional

d 7/5 = 35/25

7*25 = 5 * 35

175 = 175

is proportional