Question

Katie wants to collect over 100100 seashells. She already has 3434 seashells in her collection. Each day, she finds 1212 more seashells on the beach. Katie can use fractions of days to find seashells.

Answer 1

She needs more than 5 days to get over 100 shells

Explanation:

Given :

Katie wants to collect over 100 seashells.

She already has 34 seashells in her collection.

Each day, she finds 12 more seashells on the beach

To Find: Katie can use fractions of days to find seashells.

Solution :

Since Katie already had 34 seashells

She wants to collect over 100 shells

Let she collected seashells for d day

She collects shells each day = 12

So, she collects in d days = 12d

So, the equation becomes:

`34+12d>100`

`12d>100-34`

`12d>66`

`d>(66)/(12)`

`d>5.5`

Thus she needs more than 5 days to get over 100 shells