Jerrica is packing a box that can hold at most 65 pounds. She starts by putting a container in the box that weighs 26 pounds. She plans to fill the rest of the box with books. Each book she places in the box weighs 1.3 pounds. Write an inequality for the number of books Jerrica can put in the box, and describe the solutions. (2 points)

Question

Jerrica is packing a box that can hold at most 65 pounds. She starts by putting a container in the box that weighs 26 pounds. She plans to fill the rest of the box with books. Each book she places in the box weighs 1.3 pounds. Write an inequality for the number of books Jerrica can put in the box, and describe the solutions. (2 points)

Box x + Box<= Box. put at most where is the number of books Jerrica can put in the box. Jerrica can books in the box.

Answer 1

Let b represent the number of books Jerrica can put in the box.

The weight of the container is 26 pounds and each book weighs 1.3 pounds.
So the total weight of the container and books is 26 + 1.3b pounds.
Since the box can hold at most 65 pounds, the inequality can be written as:
26 + 1.3b ≤ 65.
The solutions to this inequality are the possible values of b that make the inequality true. It represents the number of books Jerrica can put in the box without exceeding its weight limit.