Ms. Estrada plans to take 36 chocolate chip cookies to sell at a bake sale. She wants to bake enough to keep at least 24 cookies for her cookie jar at home.Valentina is baking jumbo cinnamon rolls for a family breakfast. She uses all the dough she made to form 12 cinnamon rolls of equal weight. The recipe usually makes 36 ounces of dough, but Valentina made more dough than that so she can have larger cinnamon rolls.

Question

Let x represent how many ounces of dough Valentina uses for each cinnamon roll
Solve the inequality. Then, complete the sentence to describe the solution.

Answer 1

The inequality can be represented as x >= 36/12.

Simplifying, we have x >= 3.

The solution to the inequality is that Valentina must use at least 3 ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll.