As part of their study of the native american basket weaving, lia's class is making wicker baskets. lia starts with a strip of wicker that is 36 inches long. from the strip, she first cuts one piece but does not know it's length, and then she cuts a piece that is 6 1/2 inches long. the piece left is 7 3/4 inches long. what is the length of the first piece she cut from the strip?

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. he needs to schedule employee to staff the deli department for no more that 260 person-hours per week. tom has one part-time employee who works 20 person-hours per week. each full-time employee works 40 person-hours per week. write and inequality to determine n, the number of full-time employees tom may schedule, so that his employees work on more than 260 person-hours per week. graph the solution set to this inequality.