Question

During the fall you charge $10 to go to a house and rake the leaves and an additional eight dollars for every hour that you rake the yard if you earned $42 how many hours did you spend raking the leaves

Answer 1

4

Explanation:

set up an equation:

let h be the number of hours you spent raking.

then, the cost would be 10 + 8 times the number of hours.

In equation form:

`10 + 8h = 42`

solve:

`10 + 8h = 42\\8h = 32\\h = 4`

So you worked for 4 hours