Question

21. You need to work a total of 44 hours per week at your two jobs. Your job os a store clerk pays $5.50 an hour, and your job as a landscaper pays $6.00 an hour. You need to earn $250.00 per week to cover your expenses. Which system of equations shows the various numbers of hours you can work at each job. C is the number of hours worked as a clerk, while Lis the number of hours worked as a landscaper.

Answer 1

In this problem you can work a maximun of 44 hour so the sum of C and L must be 44:

`C+L=44`

Now if you need to do 250 dollar then the equation will be C tiems the payment in C plus L time the payment in L so:

`5.50C+6.00L=250`

So the answer was A