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

Answer 1

If Valentina uses x ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll and she made 12 cinnamon rolls, then the total amount of dough she used is 12*x.
If Valentina made more dough than the recipe calls for and the recipe usually makes 36 ounces of dough, then 12*x > 36.
Simplifying the inequality, we get 12x > 36.
Dividing both sides of the inequality by 12, we get x > 3.
So Valentina used more than 3 ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll.