Let
T = tons that Alexandra drives in the truck.
We have then:
she made 5 trips to the city dump yesterday and hauled t ton of waste each tripe.
This can be written as:
5 * T
Then,
the total amount of waste Alexandra hauled yester weighed less than 1.5 tons:
<1.5
We have then:
5T <1.5
answer:
5T <1.5