A box can hold a maximum of 60 comic books. If comic books are bundled together in groups of 8, write and solve an inequality to find the maximum number of bundles of comic books that the box can carry.
8x <= 60
To find the maximum number of bundles of comic books that the box can carry, we'll first need to determine the maximum number of comic books that can fit in the box.
Since each bundle has 8 comic books, the maximum number of comic books that can fit in the box is calculated by multiplying the number of bundles by the number of comic books per bundle, which is 8.
Let's represent the number of bundles as "n". Therefore, the maximum number of comic books is given by:
Maximum Number of Comic Books = n * 8
Since the box can hold a maximum of 60 comic books, we can write the following inequality to represent this constraint:
n * 8 ≤ 60
This inequality states that the product of the number of bundles and 8 must be less than or equal to 60.
To find the maximum number of bundles, we can solve this inequality. Dividing both sides of the inequality by 8 gives us:
n ≤ 60 / 8
Simplifying the expression on the right side gives us:
n ≤ 7.5
Since the number of bundles must be a whole number and cannot be a fraction, we round down to the nearest whole number. Thus, the maximum number of bundles that can fit in the box is 7.
Therefore, the maximum number of bundles of comic books that the box can carry is 7.