Final answer:
The inequality x / 3 ≤ 6 models the situation where a student shares a bag of fruit snacks equally with two friends and they each get at most 6 snacks. Solving the inequality, we find that there were at most 18 fruit snacks in the bag.
Step-by-step explanation:
The inequality given for the scenario where the student shares fruit snacks with two friends is x / 3 ≤ 6. To solve this inequality, we multiply both sides of the inequality by 3 to isolate x on one side. This gives us x ≤ 18.
Therefore, the total number of fruit snacks that could have been in the bag is at most 18. This means if each person got exactly 6 fruit snacks, there would be 18 in the bag. But since the inequality allows for each person to have gotten at most 6 snacks, there could have been fewer than 18 snacks in the bag.