Scott is collecting cans for his school's annual food drive. He has already collected 3 cans but wants to collect at least 12 cans in all. Write and solve an inequality to show how many more cans Scott needs to collect to reach his goal.

Carbon- 14 is a radioactive form of carbon found in all living plants. after a plant dies, the carbon- 14 disintegrates. samples of similar living plants are used to determine the age of the remains. the amount of carbone-14 present after t years is given by the exponential equation n(t) = noe where no is the initial amount of carbon-14. the half-life of carbone-14 is 5600 years. charcoal from an ancient fire pit contains one third of earbon-14 found in similar living wood of the same size. find the age of the charcoal half-life is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial amount