Alexandria wants to go hiking on Saturday. She will consider these conditions when she chooses which of several parks to visit: • She wants to hike for 2 hours. • She wants to spend no more than 6 hours away from home. • She can average 65 miles per hour to and from the park. Write and solve an inequality to find possible distances from Alexandria’s home to a park that satisfies the conditions.

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Answer:
The important thing to consider here is the maximum amount of time she can spend driving. Since she will spend 2 hours at the park and want to be gone no more than 6 hours, this number is 4 hours. 
 This means she can spend 2 hours on the way to the park and 2 hours back. Her maximum distance, therefore, is 2 hours times an average speed of 65 miles per hour
Therefore:
2x ≤65 * 4
2x ≤ 260
x ≤ 130
Her maximum distance is 2 hours x 65 mph = 130 miles.
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