Question

Sherry is having new flooring installed at her house. Funky Flooring offers a complimentary inspection of the house and charges $32 per hour to install flooring. Fantastic Flooring charges $125.00 to inspect the house and $18.00 per hour to install flooring. Let h represent the number of hours for which Sherry hires a flooring company. Which of the following statements is true?

A.The expression 32ℎ represents the total charge for Sherry if she uses Funky Flooring.


B.The expression 18ℎ represents the total charge for Sherry if she uses Fantastic Flooring.


C.The expression 125 + 32ℎ + 18ℎ represents the total amount Sherry will spend for having new flooring installed at her house


D.If having new flooring installed at Sherry’s house takes nine hours, Funky Flooring will be cheaper.

Answer 1

The answer is A.

A.The expression 32ℎ represents the total charge for Sherry if she uses Funky Flooring.

Answer 2

A. The expression 32ℎ represents the total charge for Sherry if she uses Funky Flooring.

Explanation:

Given,

In Funky Flooring,

Charges for inspection and install flooring = $ 32 per hour,

If the flooring is hired for h hours,

Then total charges of flooring = 32h dollars,

Option 'A' is correct.

Now, in Fantastic Flooring ,

Fixed charge for inspection = 125,

Installing charges = $ 18.00 per hours,

Hence, the total charges of flooring = 125 + 18h

Thus, option 'B' is not correct.

∵ He will choose only one flooring.

So, the total charges is either from Funky flooring or Fanatics flooring.

∴ option 'C' is not correct.

Now, for 9 hours,

Charges from funky flooring = 32(9) = $ 288

Charges from fanatics flooring = 125 + 18(9) = $ 287

288 > 287

Hence, option 'D' is not correct.