Lincoln Middle School plans to collect more than 2,000 cans of food in a food drive. So far, 668 cans have been collected. Write and solve an inequality to find numbers of cans …

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Beaux · Answer 1 · 2023-06-17T22:23:07+0000

Let x be the number of cans of food, since we need more than or equal to 2000 cans, we can write

$x+668\ge2000$

where 668 is the number of cans that they have been collected.

Now, we must find x. If we move 668 to the right hand side as -668, we get

$\begin{gathered} x\ge2000-668 \\ \end{gathered}$

which gives

$x\ge1332$

this means that they must collect more than or equalt to 1332 cans of food.