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Greenville has a town-wide hunt for plastic dinosaur eggs every spring. Tanner and his sister, Tess, participate every year. Tanner found 25 eggs this year, but Tess found more.Let e represent the number of eggs that Tess could have found. Which inequality models the story?

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Greenville has a town-wide hunt for plastic dinosaur eggs every spring. Tanner and his sister, Tess, participate every year. Tanner found 25 eggs this year, but Tess found more.Let e represent the number of eggs that Tess could have found. Which inequality models the story?

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Solution

The inequality that models the story is e > 25. This is because Tess found more eggs than Tanner, who found 25 eggs. Therefore, the number of eggs Tess found (e) is greater than 25.

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