You are creating a decorative rope that is at least 20 feet long. You do not have enough 6 inch beads to make the rope, so you w

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ill use 10 inch beads instead. Write and solve an inequality that represents the number of 10 inch beads that you can use.

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Inessa05 [86] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-30T23:05:21+03:00

You can use at most 24 beads that are 10 inches long to decorate the rope.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Length of rope = 120 feet

1 foot = 12 inches

20 foot = 20*12 = 240 inches

Length of bead = 10 inches

Let,

x represents the number of beads used on rope.

As the rope is 240 inches long, therefore, the total length of beads cannot exceed 240 inches.

Length of each bead*Number of beads ≤ length of rope

$10*x\leq 240\\10x\leq 240$

Dividing both sides by 10

$\frac{10x}{10}\leq \frac{240}{10}\\x\leq 24$

You can use at most 24 beads that are 10 inches long to decorate the rope.

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