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30 August, 08:48

A baseball team wants to collect at least 160 cans of food for an upcoming food drive. Team members brought 42 cans of food on Monday and 65 cans of food on Wednesday. Write and solve an inequality to describe how many cans of food the team must collect on Friday to make or exceed their goal.

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  1. 30 August, 09:37
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    If they collect 65 on Monday, 42 on Wednesday and the rest on Friday, then we can write it down as:

    65 + 42 + x ≥ 160

    107 + x ≥ 160 / - 107 (both sides)

    x ≥ 53

    So the team needs to collect at least 53 cans on Friday.
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