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The height of a room is 10 feet. You are installing floor-to-ceiling shelving, and each shelf is 8 inches tall. Write and solve an inequality for the number of shelves you could possibly build.
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The height of a room is 10 feet. You are installing floor-to-ceiling shelving, and each shelf is 8 inches tall. Write and solve an inequality for the number of shelves you could possibly build.

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10ft=120
120 divided by 8=15
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10 feet = 120 inches

120 divided by 8 = 15

you can have 15 shelves in the room

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