To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $32 and an additional fee of $8.90 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend at most$103.20 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.

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ANSWER

[tex]t\leq8\text{ hrs}[/tex]

EXPLANATION

Let t the number of hours the meeting room is rented be t.

The college charges a reservation fee of $32 and an additional fee of $8.90 per hour.

This implies that for t hours, the total charge will be:

[tex]32+8.90t[/tex]

The chemistry club wants to spend at most $103.20 on renting the meeting room.

This implies that the total charge must be less than or equal to $103.20:

[tex]32+8.90t\leq103.20[/tex]

Now, we can solve for t in the inequality by collecting like terms and simplifying:

[tex]\begin{gathered} 8.90t\leq103.20-32 \\ \\ 8.90t\leq71.2 \\ \\ t\leq\frac{71.2}{8.9} \\ \\ t\leq8\text{ }hrs \end{gathered}[/tex]

Those are the possible amounts of time they could rent the meeting room.