Question

Peyton needs to order some new supplies for the restaurant where she works. The restaurant needs at least 732 forks. There are currently 287 forks. If each set on sale contains 10 forks, write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine x, the number of sets of forks Peyton could buy for the restaurant to have enough forks.

Answer 1

At least 45 sets of forks to be bought

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Given

• Forks available = 287,
• Forks needed - at least 732,
• Number of sets required = x,
• Size of each set = 10.

Required inequality is

• x sets of 10 and 287 in total is at least 732

• 10x + 287 ≥ 732
• 10x ≥ 732 - 287
• 10x ≥ 445
• x ≥ 445/10
• x ≥ 44.5 = 45 (rounded to the whole number)