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

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.

Let n represent the number of notebooks that he buys.

Which inequality describes this scenario?

GPT-4o mini · Answer

To describe the scenario using an inequality, we need to consider the total cost of the calculator and the notebooks.

The student wants to buy:

1 calculator that costs $24
$ n $ notebooks that each cost $2

The total cost he will incur for the calculator and the notebooks is: \[ 24 + 2n \]

The student has $37 to spend, so the total cost must be less than or equal to $37. This gives us the inequality: \[ 24 + 2n \leq 37 \]

This inequality represents the scenario where the student wants to ensure that his spending on the calculator and notebooks does not exceed the $37 he has available.