Question

Asgard 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 the school can collect on each of the final 7 days of the drive to meet this goal.​

Answer 1

Let x be the unknown number.

7x + 668 < 2000 => 7x plus 668 is less than 2000

where:

7x => x represents the number of cans to be collected in 7 days

668 is the number of cans already collected.

2000 is the target number of cans.

7x + 668 < 2000

- 668 -668

7x < 1332

÷7 ÷7

x < 190.30

or

x < 190

To check:

7x + 668 < 2000

7(190) + 668 < 2000

1330 + 668 < 2000

1998 < 2000

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