Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $49 and an additional fee of $5.40 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend less than $86.80 on renting the meeting room.

Answer 1

The maximum amount of money the chemistry club can spend without going over their buget is $81.4 ... With a total of 6 hours their allowed to use the room for.

Explanation:

$49 is our constant and will not change. 5.40 however will. Let's use variable h for the amount hours they can rent the room for. Now we can make an inequality;

49+ 5.40h < 86.80

5.40h < 86.80

5.4h< 37.8

h< 7

Now that we know h will have to be less than seven for the chemistry club to spend less than their buget we can find that 6 is the maxium amount of hours they can spend in the room while staying within their budget.

(This answer does not consider decimals or half hours)