We have been given that Elaine cuts 3 equal length streamers from a strip of purple paper that is 8 feet long. We are asked to find the length of each streamer.
To find the length of each streamer, we will divide total length of paper by 3 as:
Since there are more boys than girls, there must be at least 9 boys. Plug into equation: (b+8) represents number of students. If they each have at least 2 pencils we would use 2(b+8). Plugging in 9 for the boys we have: 2(9+8)=?
2(17)=34. So with the minimum number of boys there would be at least 34 pencils, so the answer is p>30