SOLUTION: To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $16 and an additional fee of $6 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend less than $70 on renting the room

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Question 1168971: To rent a certain meeting room, a college charges a reservation fee of $16 and an additional fee of $6 per hour. The chemistry club wants to spend less than $70 on renting the room.
What are the possible numbers of hours the chemistry club could rent the meeting room?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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The governing inequality is


    16 + 6x < 70  dollars.


The solution is  x < %2870-16%29%2F6 = 9 hours.    ANSWER

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