Question

Leila wants to rent a boat and spend at most $93. The boat costs $8 per hour, and Leila has a discount coupon for $3 off. What are the possible numbers of

hours Leila could rent the boat?
Use t for the number of hours.
Write your answer as an inequality solved for t.

Answer 1

Answer: 0≤t≤12

Explanation:

(I’m not sure if it’s 5 dollars off per hour, or total, but here’s what I did!)

If Leila has a $3 coupon, than she can spend +$3 because when you get a coupon, you can spend more, so 93+3 is equal to 96, now we just divide by 8 (because a boat costs $8 per hour) and we get 96/8=12.

Then, in inequality form it’s t≤12, because she can rent the boat for at most 12 hours, you could also do 0≤t≤12, because you can’t rent it for a negative amount of time, but either works.

Answer 2

0 ≤ t ≤ 18

Explanation:

The cost of renting the boat without any discount is $8 per hour. However, Leila has a discount coupon for $3 off, so the effective cost per hour would be $8 - $3 = $5.

Let's assume Leila rents the boat for t hours. The total cost of renting the boat for t hours would be $5 multiplied by t, which is 5t.

According to the problem, Leila wants to spend at most $93. Therefore, we can set up the following inequality:

5t ≤ 93

This inequality represents the condition that the total cost of renting the boat (5t) should be less than or equal to $93.

Simplifying the inequality:

5t ≤ 93

Dividing both sides by 5 (since the coefficient of t is 5):

t ≤ 93/5

t ≤ 18.6

Since we cannot rent the boat for a fraction of an hour, we can round down the decimal value to the nearest whole number:

t ≤ 18

0 ≤ t ≤ 18