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Your class hopes to collect at least 325 cans of food for the annual food drive. There were 135 cans donated the first week and 89 more the second week.
Write an inequality that describes this situation. Let c represent the number of cans of food that must be collected by the end of the third week for your class to meet or surpass its goal.
How many cans are needed to meet or surpass the goal?
c ≥ 325
To meet or surpass the goal, at least 325 cans of food must be collected.
To write an inequality that describes this situation, we can use the variable c to represent the number of cans of food that must be collected by the end of the third week.
The total number of cans collected in the first and second week is given by:
135 (cans donated in the first week) + 89 (cans donated in the second week) = 224 cans
So, to meet or surpass the goal of collecting at least 325 cans, the inequality would be:
c >= 325 - 224
c >= 101
Therefore, the inequality that describes this situation is c >= 101.
To find out how many cans are needed to meet or surpass the goal, we just need to evaluate the right-hand side of the inequality, which is 101.
Therefore, the class needs to collect at least 101 cans of food to meet or surpass the goal.