Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $18 and an additional fee of $5 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend at most $58 on renting the room. What are the possible numbers of hours the chemistry club could rent the meeting room?

Use t for the number of hours.
Write your answer as an inequality solved for t.

Answer 1

8 Hours

t ≤ 8

End total = $18 + $5t

Explanation:

58 - 18 = 40

You have 40 dollars available to spend on hours.

Since its 5 dollars per hour we will only be able to spend 8 hours at max

40 ÷ 5 = 8