Question

Mary bought more than 72 pencils to distribute to children at an orphanage. She packs these pencils in gift boxes. If she packs 4 pencils each into x gift boxes, the inequality that represents this situation is?. The simplified form of the inequality is ?

Answer 1

For this case, the first thing we must do is define a variable.
 We have then:
 x: number of gift boxes.
 We then have to write the inequation that models the problem:
 "Mary bought more than 72 pencils"
 "she packs 4 pencils each into x gift boxes"
 We have then:
 $4x \geq 72$
 Simplifying we have:
 $x \geq 72/4$
 $x \geq 18$
 Answer:
 the inequality that represents this situation is:
 $4x \geq 72$
 The simplified form of the inequality is:
 $x \geq 18$