Question

Shane and Abha earned a team badge that required their team to collect no less than 2000 cans for recycling. Abha collected 178 more cans than Shane did. Write an inequality to determine the number of cans, S, that Shane could have collected. What is the solution set of the inequality?

Answer 1

Answer: [911,∞)

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: S be the number of cans collected by Shane.

Since,  Abha collected 178 more cans than Shane did.

Then, the number of cans collected by Abha = S+178

Also, Shane and Abha earned a team badge that required their team to collect no less than 2000 cans for recycling.

So, $S+178+S\geq2000$

$\\\Rightarrow\ 2S\geq2000-178\\\Rightarrow2S\geq1822\\\Rightarrow\ S\geq911$

Hence, the solution set of the inequality will be [911,∞)