Melanie makes $3.00 less per hour babysitting than her best friend, Carita. If the combined hourly rate of Melanie and Carita is $15.00, how much does Melanie make per hour?
a.$3.00
b.$6.00
c.$9.00
d.$12.00

Shane and abha earned a team badge that required their team to collect no less than 2000 cans for recycling. abha collected 178 more cans than shane did. write an inequality to determine the number of cans, s, that shane could have collected.