Jill sold half of her comic books and then bought sixteen more. she now has 36. with how many did she begin? (two step equation)

Derek purchased a new gym membership. it costs him seven dollars a month plus two dollars for every time that he visits the gym. he wants to spend less than 25 dollars a month to visit the gym. write an inequality that models the situation using the variable v for the number of visits per month. also find the maximum number of visits he can make to the gym and still keep his cost below 25 dollars a month.