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a cleaning company charges a flat fee of $8 and $30 per hour to clean a home. write an equation that can represent the situation if each represents the number of hours and a customer pays a total of $128 for cleaning services

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In order to reach the total cost of $128, you need to find the number of hours the company cleaned. The equation to do so would be

30x+ 8 = 128

If you subtract 8 from both sides and then divide by 30 you'll find that x=4.
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