Why does an inequality represent Nora’s budget calculations better and than an equation?

In the field of thermodynamics, rankine is the unit used to measure temperature. one can convert temperature from celsius into rankine using the formula c= r/1.8 - 273, what is the temperature in celcius corresponding to r degrees rankine.

Stephen thublin invests $1,000,000 in a 45-day certificate of deposit with 6.55% interest. what is the total interest income from the investment?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.