To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $19 and an additional fee of $4 per hour. Thee chemistry club wants to spend at most $55 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.
The total cost for renting the meeting room is given by the equation:
Cost = $19 + $4t
The chemistry club wants to spend at most $55, so we can write the following inequality:
$19 + $4t ≤ $55
Subtracting $19 from both sides:
$4t ≤ $36
Divide by 4:
t ≤ 9
Therefore, the chemistry club could rent the meeting room for at most 9 hours.
In inequality form:
t ≤ 9