Valentina is baking jumbo cinnamon rolls for a family breakfast. She uses all the dough she made to form 12 cinnamon rolls of equal weight. The recipe usually makes 36 ounces of dough, but Valentina made more dough than that so she can have larger cinnamon rolls. Let x represent how many ounces of dough Valentina uses for each cinnamon roll. Which inequality describes the problem? Choices: (A)12x ≥ 36 (B)12x 36 Solve the inequality. Then, complete the sentence to describe the solution. Valentina uses more than ____ ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll.

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Valentina is baking jumbo cinnamon rolls for a family breakfast. She uses all the dough she made to form 12 cinnamon rolls of equal weight. The recipe usually makes 36 ounces of dough, but Valentina made more dough than that so she can have larger cinnamon rolls.  Let x represent how many ounces of dough Valentina uses for each cinnamon roll. Which inequality describes the problem?   Choices: (A)12x ≥ 36 (B)12x > 36    Solve the inequality. Then, complete the sentence to describe the solution. Valentina uses more than ____ ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll.

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Set Up Equation:  Valentina made more dough than the usual 36 ounces and divided it equally into 12 cinnamon rolls. To find the inequality that describes how much dough each cinnamon roll weighs, we start by setting up the equation based on the total weight of the dough divided by the number of cinnamon rolls. Isolate x:  To solve the inequality 12x > 36, divide both sides by 12 to isolate x. Final Conclusion:  Since x represents the ounces of dough per cinnamon roll and x > 3, Valentina uses more than 3 ounces of dough for each cinnamon roll.

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