Question

Carl is having a party. He has bought 24 brownies and is making 6 more batches of brownies. The inequality below can be used to determine how many brownies, b, must be in each batch so that all 138 guests get at least 1 brownie. Determine which of the given values, if any, make the inequality true: b=10, b=15, b=20 *

Answer 1

b = 20

Explanation:

The computation is shown below

Given that

24+ 6b > 138

where

b = 10

b = 15

b = 20

So if we take b = 10

= 24 + 6(10)

= 24 + 60

= 84

B = 15

= 24 + 6(15)

= 24 + 90

= 114

B = 20

= 24 + 6 (20)

= 24 + 120

= 144

So if we take b = 20 the inequality would be true