Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $31 and an additional fee of $5.70 per hour. The history club wants to spend less than $82.30 on renting the meeting room.

What are the possible amounts of time for which they could rent the meeting room?
Use for the number of hours the meeting room is rented, and solve your inequality for .

Answer 1

x
`\leq` 9

Explanation:

31 + 5.70x
`\leq` 82.30

subtract 82.30 by 31

5.70x
`\leq` 51.3

divide both sides by 5.70

x
`\leq` 9