Eli wants to purchase some new school supplies. He wants to buy a calculator that costs $24 and some notebooks for school. Each notebook costs $2. Eli only has $37 to spend.
Let n represent the number of notebooks that Eli buys.
Which inequality describes this scenario?
A. 24n+2≤37
B. 37n<2n+24
C. 2n+24≤37
D. 37≤2n+24
E. 2n+24>37
The cost of the calculator is $24 and the cost of each notebook is $2. Eli wants to buy n notebooks. Therefore, the total cost of the notebooks is 2n.
We can set up the inequality: 2n + 24 ≤ 37.
So the answer is C. 2n + 24 ≤ 37.