Question

Brandon needs to order some new supplies for the restaurant where he works. Therestaurant needs at least 549 spoons. There are currently 273 spoons. If each set onsale contains 10 spoons, write and solve an inequality which can be used to determines, the number of sets of spoons Brandon could buy for the restaurant to have enoughspoons. I need to find the Inequality and the answer to the inequality

Answer 1

The total number of spoons required is 549.

The number of available spoons is, 273.

The set contains 10 spoons. Then let us take, n be the number of sets Brandon could buy. We have,

`273+10n\ge549`

Solving for n, we have,

`\begin{gathered} 273+10n\ge549 \\ 10n\ge549-273 \\ 10n\ge276 \\ n\ge(276)/(10)=27.6 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the number of sets is 28.