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Robert is painting a house. He has 35 cans of paint. He has used 30 kinds of paint on the walls perit now he needs to paint the trim. If each section of the trim takes 1/2 can of paint, how many sections of trim can he paint? Show your answer as an inequality with symbols, in words, and with a number line. Make sure your solution makes sense for this situation.​

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Answer: Robert has 35 cans of paint - 30 cans of paint that he has already used = 35 - 30 = 5 cans of paint left.

Since each section of trim takes 1/2 can of paint, Robert can paint 2 sections of trim with 1 can of paint.

Therefore, Robert can paint 5 cans of paint * 2 sections of trim per can = 10 sections of trim.

The inequality can be written as 10 <= sections of trim <= 10.

In words, the number of sections of trim that Robert can paint is less than or equal to 10.

On a number line, this solution can be represented as follows:

[9, 10, 11, ...]

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sections of trim

The solution makes sense because Robert has only 5 cans of paint left, so it is not possible for him to paint more than 10 sections of trim.

Explanation:

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