To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of
$41
and an additional fee of
$7.90
per hour. The film club wants to spend less than
$88.40
on renting the meeting room.
What are the possible amounts of time for which they could rent the meeting room?
Use t for the number of hours the meeting room is rented, and solve your inequality for t.

Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of 
$41
 and an additional fee of 
$7.90
 per hour. The film club wants to spend less than 
$88.40
 on renting the meeting room.
What are the possible amounts of time for which they could rent the meeting room?
Use t for the number of hours the meeting room is rented, and solve your inequality for t.

anonymous · Answer

$$(41 + 7.9 t ) = 88.4 $$
t < 6 hrs