Question

Carrie is looking for a job cutting hair. One option is self-employment at The Belmont Salon, where she would pay $438 per month to rent a station and keep all her earnings. Another option is to work at a franchise, where she just have to pay $2 for every haircut. if she performed a certain number of haircuts every month, the amount paid to either salon would be the same. how much would Carrie pay? how many haircuts would that be? ( Can you also show the steps please?)

Answer 1

She would have to do 219 haircuts in a month for the costs to be the same, which would be $428.

Explanation:

To find this we take the costs of the first place.

$438

Next we can look at the costs of the second place using x as the number of haircuts she'd do.

2x

Now we can set the two equal to each other to find the number of cuts.

438 = 2x

219 = x