Question

To complete a home repair, a carpenter is renting a tool from the local hardware store. The expression 20x + 60 represents the total charges, which includes a fixed rental fee and an hourly fee, where x is the hours of the rental. What does the coefficient of the first term of the expression represent?

Answer 1

20x = the cost of the rental according to the hours rented

1 hour costs $20

x= the number of hours

example: if we rent 3 hours the cost: 20*3=$60

Explanation: