Real world Equations

Question

A fitness club is having a special offer where you pay $22 to join plus a $16 monthly fee. You have $150 to spend.

 

Answer 1

Is that the entire problem?

 

Is the problem that one wants to know the number of months of gym membership that can be pre-paid, given that the person enrolling has $150.00 to spend as of right now?

 

This would be:  22 + 16x ≤ 150

 

Next, to solve for 'x', we need to subtract 22 from both sides, to give us:

 

16x ≤ 128

 

To determine the number of months that can be pre-paid, divide out both sides by '16', to get:

 

x ≤ 8

 

So, the maximum number of months that can be pre-paid is 8.