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.