Alion needs to eat at least 15 pounds of food each day. the zoo feeds the lion using canisters that each contain 3 pounds of food. the lion has already consumed 9 pounds of food. how many more canisters x of food does the lion need to eat? write your answer as an inequality.

Step-by-step explanation:

"A lion needs to eat at least 15 pounds of food each day". This statement can be expressed

Where   expresses "at least".

We know that each canister is 3 pounds. So, if the lion already consumed 9 pounds of food that means

Where represents canisters. So, the lion already ate 3 canisters.

This means the Lion still needs 6 more pounds, so

Which means that the Lion needs at least 2 more canisters to be eat at least 15 pounds, that is

Where represents canisters. So, this inequality states that the Lion has to eat at least 2 more canisters to get all 15 pounds of the day.

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theresa talked her parents into getting sd cards for her phone and her brother’s phone. inserting an sd card into a phone gives it more storage. they both get 8-gigabyte sd cards. how many bits of storage come with each sd card? type your answer in both scientific and standard notation.