Clive started with 12 cups of pecans. After using some pecans to make muffins, he has fewer than cups of pecans left to make pies.
Let x represent the number of cups of pecans Clive can use to make pies. Complete the inequality that can be used to model this situation.
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Let's label the total number of cups of pecans as "12" and the number of cups used to make muffins as "y". The number of cups of pecans Clive has left to make pies can be represented as:
12 - y
Since Clive has fewer than x cups of pecans left, we can represent this as an inequality:
12 - y < x
Therefore, the completed inequality that can be used to model this situation is:
12 - y < x