In two weeks, your class collected more than 380 cans of food for the annual food drive. In the first week, 145 cans were collected. How many cans c of food were collected in the second week? Write and solve an inequality.

Question

In two weeks, your class collected more than 380 cans of food for the annual food drive. In the first week, 145 cans were collected. How many cans c of food were collected in the second week? Write and solve an inequality.

Answer 1

Let c be the number of cans collected in the second week.

To find out if the goal of more than 380 cans was met, we can write an inequality:

145 + c > 380

Subtracting 145 from both sides:

c > 235

Therefore, more than 235 cans of food were collected in the second week.