A student wants to purchase some new school supplies. He wants to buy a calculator that cost $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 describe the scenario with an inequality, we need to account for the total costs of the calculator and the notebooks.

1. The cost of the calculator is $24.
2. Each notebook costs $2, so the total cost for \( n \) notebooks is \( 2n \).
3. The student has a total of $37 to spend.

The total cost (calculator + notebooks) must not exceed the amount the student has. This can be written as:

\[ 24 + 2n \leq 37 \]

This inequality represents the relationship in the scenario, where \( n \) is the number of notebooks the student can buy without exceeding his budget.