SOLUTION: The science club consisting of 2 adults and 8 students went to the city park to plant trees. Each adult planted z trees and each student planted 1 tree. all together, the group pl

Question 299190: The science club consisting of 2 adults and 8 students went to the city park to plant trees. Each adult planted z trees and each student planted 1 tree. all together, the group planted at least 12 trees.
How do you write an inequality to express this situation?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 2 adults who plant 'z' trees. So there are trees that have been planted by adults total. Because there are 8 students and they each plant a single tree, this means that there are trees planted by students total. In total, the club has planted trees

Now since "the group planted at least 12 trees" (at least being the key word here), this means that they planted 12 or more trees. So the inequality is . I'll leave it to you to solve it.
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