Question

19. ENVELOPES Sani has at least 68 envelopes to address. He has addressed 17 of them. Write and solve an inequality that describes how many more envelopes, at most, Sani has left to address.

Answer 1

Answer:

$x \ge51$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let $x$ be the number of envelopes Sani has left to address. He has already addressed 17 of them, so he had $x+17$ total envelopes to address. We know he had at least 68 envelopes to address, so $x+17$ is at least 68.

Writing this as an inequality, we have

$x+17 \ge 68$.

Subtracting 17 from both sides gives

$x \ge51$.