Question

Plz help.. btw this is 7th grade math. (22 pts.)

A killer whale has eaten 75 pounds of fish today. It needs to eat at least 140 pounds of fish each day. a. A bucket holds 15 pounds of fish. Identify an inequality that represents how many more buckets x of fish the whale needs to eat.

Answer 1

He needs 4 1/3 buckets of fish.

Explanation:

140 - 75 = 65 pounds of fish left to eat

15x = 65

x = 65 / 15

x = 4 1/3 buckets of fish left to eat