A killer whale has eaten 75 pounds of fish today. It needs to eat at least 140 pounds of fish each day A bucket holds 15 pounds of fish. Identify an inequality that represents how many more buckets z of fish the whale needs to eat?
1 Answer
May 17, 2018
z
Explanation:
140 - 75 = 65
So, it needs to eat 65 pounds of fish more.
65/15 = 4.333333.......
So, it needs 5 more buckets of fish. (cause you can't have 0.3333.. of a bucket, but it "needs" the 0.3333)
So,
z