I need help on a word problem

Question

You are making beaded bracelets for your friends. You want to use 30 beads for each bracelet and want to use no more than 145 beads. Write an inequality that models this situation. Can you make 4 bracelets?

Answer 1

So the variable here would be the number of bracelets. We can call that n.

 

The number of beads used in making n bracelets is 30 * n

 

So the inequality modeling this situation would be 30 * n <= 145.

 

You would plug in n = 4 to check if you can make 4 bracelets.