Lincoln needs to order some new supplies for the restaurant where he works. The restaurant needs at least 682 spoons. There are currently 388 spoons. If each set on sale contains 8 spoons, which inequality can be used to determine
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x, the minimum number of sets of spoons Lincoln should buy?
The number of spoons Lincoln needs to buy can be determined by subtracting the current number of spoons from the minimum required number of spoons:
682 - 388 = x * 8
The inequality to determine x, the minimum number of sets of spoons, is:
8x ≥ 294
To determine the minimum number of sets of spoons Lincoln should buy, we need to calculate the difference between the number of spoons needed and the number of spoons currently available, and then divide it by the number of spoons in each set.
The inequality that can be used is:
(682 - 388) / 8 ≥ x
This inequality states that the result of dividing the difference between the needed spoons (682) and the current spoons (388) by the number of spoons in each set (8) should be greater than or equal to x, the minimum number of sets to be purchased.