Bethany is selling cookies for her schools bake sale. She needs to bake 185 cookies. Bethany bakes the cookies in batches of 12 cookies. So far, they have baked a total of 48 cookies. How many cookies does Bethany have left to bake? As an inequality
Let x be the number of batches of 12 cookies that Bethany still needs to bake.
Bethany needs to bake a total of 185 cookies, so the number of cookies she has left to bake is:
12x = number of cookies left to bake
Bethany has already baked 48 cookies, so the total number of cookies left to bake is:
12x = 185 - 48
Simplifying the expression, we get:
12x ≤ 137
Dividing by 12 on both sides, we get:
x ≤ 11.4
However, since x must be a whole number (you can't bake a partial batch of cookies), the maximum number of batches Bethany can bake is 11.
Therefore, the inequality that represents the number of cookies Bethany has left to bake is:
0 ≤ 12x ≤ 132