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

Answer 1

To represent the scenario with an inequality, let's define the variable \( n \) as the number of notebooks the student wants to buy.

The total cost of the calculator is $24, and each notebook costs $2. Therefore, the total cost for the calculator and the notebooks can be expressed as:

\[ \text{Total Cost} = 24 + 2n \]

The student has a budget of $37, so we can write the inequality that represents the situation:

\[ 24 + 2n \leq 37 \]

This inequality describes the maximum number of notebooks \( n \) that the student can buy while staying within his budget.