Darcie wants to crochet a minimum of 3 blankets to donate to a homeless shelter. Darcie crochets at a rate of

of a blanket per day. She has 60 days until when she wants to donate the blankets, but she also wants to

skip crocheting some days so she can volunteer in other ways.

Write an inequality to determine the number of days, s, Darcie can skip crocheting and still meet her goal.

How many days can Darcie skip to still meet her goal?

I believe it's 15 days

The maximum number of days that she can skip crocheting is s = 57

Step-by-step explanation:

Darcie wants to crochet a minimum of 3 blankets.

She can crochet at a rate of a blanket per day, so she makes 1 blanket in one day.

She has a total of 60 days to work.

If X is the number of days that she works, we can write it as:

X ≥ 3

This means that she works at least 3 days, so she makes at least 3 blankets.

X < 60

This means that she not can work 60 days or more, in this way she has at least one day to do another volunteer job.

then

3 ≤ X < 60

then we have:

1 ≤ s ≤ 60 - 3 = 57

where s is the days that she can skip, where the less or equal sign is used because we have a bigger or equal sign previously.

The maximum number of days that she can skip

The maximum number of days that she can skip crocheting is when the right equality is true, so s = 57.