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Katie wants to collect over 100100100 seashells. She already has 343434 seashells in her collection. Each day, she finds 121212 more seashells on the beach. Katie can use fractions of days to find seashells.

Write an inequality to determine the number of days, ddd, it will take Katie to collect over 100100100 seashells.

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Answer:

34+12d>100

Explanation:

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Katie wants to collect over 100 seashells. She already has 34 seashells in her collection. Each day, she finds 12 more seashells on the beach. Katie can use fractions of days to find seashells.

Write an inequality to determine the number of days, d, it will take Katie to collect over 100 seashells

Answer:

Kathie needs more than 5 days to get over 100 shells

The required inequality is
34 + 12d > 100

Solution:

Given that,

Katie wants to collect over 100 seashells.

She already has 34 seashells in her collection.

Each day, she finds 12 more seashells on the beach

Let "d" be the number of days she takes to cover 100 sea shells

From given statement,

She finds 12 seashells each day

Then for "d" days, the number of sea shells she collected is 12d

She already had = 34

So, the equation can be framed as:


34 + 12d > 100

Here we used "greater than" symbol, since she wants to collect over 100 seashells

Solve the inequality


12d >100-34\\\\12d>66\\\\d>(66)/(12)\\\\d>5.5

This means she won't have more than 100 shells until the 6th day

Thus she needs more than 5 days to get over 100 shells