The compound inequality 8.00 ≤ x < 9.50 represents all values, x, for which college students are paid hourly as teacher assistants. What is another way of writing this compound inequality?

The symbol ≤ in 8.00 ≤ x means x is greater than or equal to 8.00, so the first part is x ≥ 8.00. Both conditions must hold at once: x ≥ 8.00 and x < 9.50, which is choice C.

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