Question

A teacher is handing out markers to students. She has only 100 markers to hand out to her 18 students. Write and solve an inequality to represent the number of markers each student will receive. Assume each person gets the same number of markers. Use x as your variable.​

Answer 1

100 >/ 18x = ~5 markers

Explanation:

The teacher can only hand out 100 markers or less. Not more. We can't get to exactly 100 with an interger as our answer. I got 18x from the fact that there are 18 students. X represents how many markers each one will get. X equals 5.555 repeating, but you can't have a decimal amount of markers, but you can't round up. That would mean that the teacher gave out 108 markers. That's not possible.