Question

Cody's Bikes rents bikes for $18 plus $5 per hour. Mofor paid $48 to rent a bike. For how many hours did he rent the bike? _

How do i explain it's 6 hours?

Answer 1

so your equation would be 18+5x=48
5x=48-18
5x=30 so divide both sides of the equation by 5 and you'd get 6 hours.