Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $13 and an additional fee of $4 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend at most $33 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.

Answer 1

You would originally set up your equation like this:

13+4(t)=33
Subtract the 13 from both sides leaving

4(t)=20
Then divide by 4 to get your variable by itself leaving
t=5

So the maximum amount the chemistry club can rent the meeting room would be 5 hours