Question

Seth wants to buy a new skateboard that cost $167 he has $88 in the bank if you earned $7.25 an hour at work how many hours will seth have to work to earn the rest of the money

Answer 1

we can write an equation

`88+7.25h=167`

where 88 is the money you already have, 7.25 is the earned money per hour(h)

so we need to solve h or the hours

`\begin{gathered} 7.25h=167-88 \\ h=(79)/(7.25) \\ h=10.9\approx11 \end{gathered}`

seth should work approximately 11 hours