Question

Mr. Lin baked banana bread for a bake sale to raise money for the math team. He said that he added a spoonful of walnuts for each of the students in his three classes, and that he added more than 250 walnuts. He used the inequality
16w + 24w + 10w > 250 to represent this situation, where w represents the number of walnuts in each spoonful. How many walnuts can be in a spoonful?

Answer 1

To answer this question you would need to solve this inequality. The first step would be to combine all three terms on the left-hand side of the greater than symbol. By doing this you would have 50w > 250. To solve this inequality divide both sides by 50. The answer is w > 5. In words, this means the number of walnuts per spoonful is greater than five.