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Juan is studying for his final exams in Chemistry and Algebra. He knows he only has 28 hours to study, and it will take him at least two times as long to study for Algebra than Chemistry.
Write a system of inequalities to model this situation. (Let a represent the number of hours spent studying for Algebra and let c represent the number of hours spent studying for Chemistry. Enter your answers as a comma-separated list of inequalities.)
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Juan is studying for his final exams in Chemistry and Algebra. He knows he only has 28 hours to study
It will take him at least two times as long to study for Algebra than Chemistry
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