In a city council election, 2,445 votes were cast for one of the candidates. if the candidate received at least one third of the votes how many voters voted in the election?
a. write an inequality to represent this situation using x to represent the number of voters that voted
b. solve the inequality by isolating the variable. show all work
c. graph the solution on a number line
d. write a sentence to explain what the solution to the inequality represents

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.