Question

In two or more complete sentences write and solve an inequality for the situation and explain how you will solve the inequality. You want to bake 2,500 cookies for an event. You can make 100 cookies per hour. How many hours will it take you to bake the 2,500 cookies?

Answer 1

To find how many hours you will need to bake 2,500 cookies, if you can bake 100 per hour, you need to use division. 2,500 divided by 100 would give you how many hours you will need.

2,500 ÷ 100 = 25

You can check by multiplying 100 and 25 to see if you get 2,500.

100 x 25 = 2,500

Answer: It will take 25 hours to bake 2,500 cookies, if you baked 100 per hour.

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