Question

Darcie wants to crochet a minimum of 3 3 blankets to donate to a homeless shelter. Darcie crochets at a rate of 1 1 5 15 1 ? of a blanket per day. She has 6 0 60 days until when she wants to donate the blankets, but she also wants to skip crocheting some days so she can volunteer in other ways. Write an inequality to determine the number of days, s s, Darcie can skip crocheting and still meet her goal.

Answer 1

`s\leq 60-45`

Explanation:

Let s be the number Darcie can skip crocheting and still meet her goal.

We have been given that Darcie wants to crochet a minimum of 3 blankets to donate to homeless shelter.

Darcie crochets at a rate of 1/15 of blanket per day. So the number of days that Darcie will took to crochet 3 blankets will be:

`\text{Number of days taken to crochet 3 blankets}=3/(1)/(15)`

`\text{Number of days taken to crochet 3 blankets}=3*(15)/(1)`

`\text{Number of days taken to crochet 3 blankets}=45`

`\text{Days Darcie can skip crocheting}\leq \text{Total number of days-Days needed to crochet 3 blankets}`

Upon substituting our given values in our inequality we will get,

`s\leq 60-45`

Therefore, the inequality
`s\leq 60-45` represents the the number of days Darcie can skip crocheting.

Let us solve for s.

`s\leq 15`

So Darcie can skip crocheting at-most for 15 days.