Question

Mrs. McMinn just purchased a new can organizer for her pantry. At most, the organizer can hold 18 cans, but she already has 6 cans of fruit on the organizer. The inequality shown can be used to find x, the number of cans Mrs. McMinn can add to the shelf in addition to the fruit cans she already has. x + 6 ≤ 18 Which inequality represents the number of cans that are possible to add to the organizer?

Answer 1

The inequality representing the number of cans Mrs. McMinn can add to her can organizer, in addition to the 6 cans of fruit already there, is x ≤ 12. This means she can add up to 12 more cans.

The question asks us to find the inequality representing the number of additional cans Mrs. McMinn can add to her new can organizer.

Given that the organizer can hold a maximum of 18 cans and already has 6 cans of fruit, we have the inequality x + 6 ≤ 18, where x is the number of cans that can be added.

To find the value of x, we subtract 6 from both sides of the inequality:

x + 6 - 6 ≤ 18 - 6

x ≤ 12

Thus, the number of cans Mrs. McMinn can still add to the organizer is at most 12.