Question

bobs burgers pays waitresses $49.50 per day ans $5 every hour that they work. sammys sandwiches pays sandwich artists $25 per day and $8.50 each hour they work. how many hours would you have to work in order to earn the same amount of money from both restaurants?

Answer 1

If an hour is x, you make 5x dollars at bob's burgers and 8.5x dollars at sammy's. As 49.5 and 25 are base values, we get 49.5+5x=25+8.5x. Subtracting 5x and 25 from both sides, we get 24.5=3.5x and dividing by 3, we get 24.5/3.5=x=7 hours