A student wants to purchase some new school supplies. He wants to buy a calculator that costs $24 and some notebooks for school. Each notebook costs $2. The student only has $37 to spend.

Question

Let n represent the number of notebooks that he buys.

Which inequality describes this scenario?

Answer 1

To find the inequality that describes this scenario, we need to consider the total cost of the calculator and the notebooks and how it compares to the student's budget.

The cost of the calculator is $24. If \( n \) represents the number of notebooks purchased, and each notebook costs $2, then the cost of the notebooks would be \( 2n \).

The total cost for the calculator and the notebooks would therefore be:

\[ 24 + 2n \]

The student has a budget of $37, which gives us the inequality:

\[ 24 + 2n \leq 37 \]

This inequality describes the student's spending situation related to buying the calculator and notebooks.