Question

To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $38 and an additional fee of $8.70 per hour. The math club wants to spend less than $90.20 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.
(using >,=>,<,<=)

Answer 1

I believe the inequality would be t => 6

Answer 2

38 + 8.7t <= 90.20
8.7t <= 90.20 - 38
8.7t <= 52.20
t <= 52.20/8.7
t < = 6

Answer 3

but how would it be <.
I thought => means less than or equal to.
Meaning they could have the room for up to six hours

Answer 4

< means less then
> means greater then

picture you inequality sign as an alligators mouth opening....and eating the bigger number.

Examples : 4 > 2......the alligators mouth is going after the bigger number...so 4 is greater then 2.

2 < 3....alligator is going after the 3 because it is bigger....therefore, 2 is less then 3.

and = just means equals

Answer 5

your answer would be 6 hrs or less...
so t <= 6