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?

Answer 1

To represent the scenario with an inequality, we need to account for the total cost of the calculator and the notebooks. The calculator costs $24, and each notebook costs $2. The student has a total of $37 to spend.

Let \( n \) represent the number of notebooks the student buys. The total amount spent can be expressed as:

\[ 24 + 2n \]

The student wants to make sure that this total cost does not exceed the amount he has, which is $37. Therefore, we can set up the inequality as:

\[ 24 + 2n \leq 37 \]

This inequality describes the scenario where the student can buy some number of notebooks without exceeding his budget.