Question

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. He needs to schedule employees to staff the deli department at least 260 person-hours per week.
Tom has one part-time employee who works 20 hours per week. Each full-time employee works 40 hours per week.
Write an inequality to determine nnn, the number of full-time employees Tom must schedule, so that his employees will work at least 260 person-hours per week

Answer 1

260 hours minus 20 (the part time worker) =240 
240 divided by 40 (full time workers) is 6. So the answer is he needs 6 full time workers