An ice-skating rink inspects 25 pairs of skates and finds 2 pairs to be defective. The rink has 151 pairs of ice skates. Estimate the number of pairs that are likely to be defective.

Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month. at the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation s=300-15x , where s is the number of pair of shoes kelly still needs to sell and x is the number of days she has worked that month. what is the meaning of the number 300 in this equation

2y= 3 2 x−2 y = − 1 3 x + 1 y=− 3 1 x+1

Write an inequality and solve each problem.for exercises 11 and 12, interpret the solution.