Question

Nora needs to order some new supplies for the restaurant where she works. Therestaurant needs at least 478 forks. There are currently 286 forks. If each set on salecontains 12 forks, write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine s, thenumber of sets of forks Nora could buy for the restaurant to have enough forks.<

Answer 1

Nora needs to order some new supplies for the restaurant where she works. The

restaurant needs at least 478 forks. There are currently 286 forks. If each set on sale

contains 12 forks, write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine s, the

number of sets of forks Nora could buy for the restaurant to have enough forks.

Let

s -----> the number of sets of forks Nora could buy for the restaurant to have enough forks

so

the inequality that represent this situation is

`286+12s\ge478`

solve for s

`\begin{gathered} 12s\ge478-286 \\ 12s\ge192 \\ s\ge16 \end{gathered}`

the minimum number of sets is 16