Question

The student council wants to rent a ballroom for the junior prom. The ballroom's rental rate is $1500 for 3 h and $125 for each additional half hour. Suppose the student council raises $2125. What is the maximum number of hours for which they can rent the ballroom.

I just the need the inequality for this word problem, I can solve it by myself. I just don't know how to get the inequality.

Answer 1

whoops didnt see the posts bottom half

Answer 2

dont look at the answer haha

Answer 3

haha its all good :) thank you so much!

Answer 4

btw make sure you add h to 3

Answer 5

huh? do what?

Answer 6

5 + 3 = 8

Answer 7

It says $125 for each extra Half-Hour , and you can spend up all and equal the 2125.
If you use h as the number of extra full hours

\[$2125 \ge $1500 + $125*(2*h)\]

Answer 8

\[h \le \frac{ 5 }{ 2 }~hrs\]

at most 2.5 extra hours

Answer 9

oh shoot @DanJS is right

Answer 10

I did not catch it haha