Question

Krysta is looking for a job cutting hair. One option is self-employment at The Richmond Salon, where she would pay $474 per month to rent a station and keep all of her earnings. Another option is to work at a franchise, where she would just have to pay the salon $6 for every haircut. If she performed a certain number of haircuts every month, the amount paid to either salon would be the same. How many haircuts would that be? How much would Krysta pay?

Answer 1

79 haircuts and $474

Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

Given that

she would have to pay $474 per month

And $6 for every haircut

So, the number of haircuts would be

= $474 ÷ $6

= 79 haircuts

The amount that she have to pay is $474