To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of

$36

and an additional fee of

$8.80

per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend less than

$115.20

on renting the meeting room.

What are the possible amounts of time for which they could rent the meeting room?

Use

t

for the number of hours the meeting room is rented, and solve your inequality for

t

.

Question

Gerald Boone

Mathematics

20 January, 05:20

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of

$36

and an additional fee of

$8.80

per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend less than

$115.20

on renting the meeting room.

What are the possible amounts of time for which they could rent the meeting room?

Use

t

for the number of hours the meeting room is rented, and solve your inequality for

t

.

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Answers (1)

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Averie Bond · Answer 1

So this is an algebra question, where you have have to setup the equation. Let t represent the number of hours.

36 + 8.80t < 115.20 we can then setup the equation like this to solve for the max hours.

36 + 8.80t = 115.20

Now solve

8.80t = 115.2-36

8.80t = 79.2

t = 9

so t < 9