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Gabe spent $2000 to buy a piano for his music studio. He earns $25 per hour giving piano lessons to students. Let h be the number of hours of lessons that Gabe teaches. How many hours of lessons must Gabe teach to earn a $5000 profit?

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Write an equation that can be used to find h
the amount of hours Gabe must give lessons, then solve the equation to find the number of hours.

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Answer:

y=25h-2000

Explanation:

you would need to subtract the 2000 in order to know when you made a profit from buying the piano. and then the 25h is the amount of hours teaching.

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