Question

The student council wants to rent a ballroom for the junior prom. The ballroom's rental rate is $1500 for 3 h and $125 for each additional half hour. Suppose the student council raises $2125. What is the maximum number of hours for which they can rent the ballroom?

Can you show how to solve step by step with the equation?

Answer 1

I think that it's 5 and a half hours.

Subtract $2125- $1500= $625
That means that you have $625 left to spend. If it's $125 per half hour. That's 5 half hours but equals out to 2.5 hours.