Question

Abdul wants to rent a boat and spend at most $35. The boat costs $8 per hour, and Abdul has a discount coupon for $5 off. What are the possible numbers of hours Abdul coult rent the boat?

Use t for the number of hours, write your awnser as an inequality solved for t.

Answer 1

Abdul can rent the boat for at most 5 hours.

Explanation:

Let's call the number of hours Abdul rents the boat "t".

The cost of renting the boat without the discount coupon is $8 per hour, so the cost would be 8t dollars.

With the discount coupon, the cost of renting the boat would be 8t - 5 dollars.

We know that Abdul wants to spend at most $35, so we can write the inequality:

8t - 5 ≤ 35

Solving for t, we get:

8t ≤ 40

t ≤ 5

Therefore, Abdul can rent the boat for at most 5 hours.