Your profit for mowing lawns this week is $24. You are paid $8 per hour and you paid $40 for gas for the lawn mower. How many hours did you work this week?
1 Answer
Aug 3, 2018
8 hours
Explanation:
First find out how much you spent.
solve for x:
so the total you made was $64
If you got paid $8 per hour divide how much you made total by your wage to find out how many hours were worked. The algebraic equation would look like this(x being hours):
So the answer is 8 hours.