Question

In an online game, you receive -3 points for every banana your character slips on during a race. The total points from slipping on bananas during one race were at most -27. When the character slips, it takes 2 seconds for him to resume the race. Write and solve an inequality to find the least number of bananas your character slipped on. At least how many seconds of race time

Answer 1

Answer: Let's call the number of bananas your character slipped on as "x". Then, the total points from slipping on bananas would be -3x. And since the total points from slipping on bananas during one race were at most -27, we can write an inequality to represent this:

-3x ≤ -27

Now we'll solve for x:

Divide both sides by -3:

x ≥ 9

So, the least number of bananas your character slipped on is 9.

To find the least number of seconds of race time, we need to multiply the number of bananas by 2 seconds per banana:

9 bananas * 2 seconds/banana = 18 seconds

So, the least amount of race time your character took to slip on bananas is 18 seconds.

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