kat:}: :| [size=150]a wheelbarrow can carry up to 300 pounds of weight. A bag of soil weighs 20 pounds. write and solve an inequality to represent the number of bags of soil the wheelbarrow can carry.[/size]
Hi kat:}!
Suppose we give this number of bags a name, or rather a symbol.
Let's call it n. That is the first letter of "number of bags", just to make it easy to remember.
Since 1 bag weighs 20 pounds, that means that n bags must weight n x 20 pounds.
This total weight has to be less than the wheelbarrow's capacity of 300 pounds.
We can write that as:
n x 20 <= 300
Let's write a variant of that that between [ math ] tags so that this site's calculator can solve it:
n * 20 = 300
Do you see what the maximum number of bags is that the wheelbarrow can carry?
+135 
