Shane and Abha earned a team badge that required their team to collect no less than 200020002000 cans for recycling. Abha collected 178178178 more cans than Shane did. Write an inequality to determine the number of cans, SSS, that Shane could have collected. What is the solution set of the inequality?
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Answer:Shane must have collected At least 911 cans. Step-by-step explanation:Number of cans collected by Shane = SAbha collected more cans than Shane = S+178Both Shane and Abha have to collect no less than 2000 cans for recycling.
Writing the statement in terms of inequality:S+S+178≥ 20002S+178≥20002S≥2000-1782S≥ 1822S≥1822/2S≥911Shane must have collected At least 911 cans...