Using Tables to Solve Inequalities

Using Tables to Solve Inequalities

Introduction

A table organizes related quantities into rows and columns. It helps show how one quantity changes when another quantity changes and makes patterns in a relationship easier to recognize.

Emma is packing 50 notebooks into gift boxes for an event. Each box can hold 9 notebooks, and she wants to know how many complete boxes she can make.

From the given information, she understands that the number of notebooks needed is 9 times the number of gift boxes. She lets b represent the number of gift boxes.

Next, she creates a ...