Question

A company charges a customer$50 to bring an excavator to thier home in addition to $45 per hour for the service A customer has budgeted $275 to spend on excavation and the number of hours the excavator is hired is represented by h, determine the maximum number of hours the customer can afford to hire the excavator, (this isn’t part of the question but it uses inequality signs with elimination method or something like that)

Answer 1

the answer is 5 hours or less which is 5 and the < sign with line under which means they have equal to and less than that so the most hours they can do is 5

Explanation:

you have 275

you subtract 50 from 275

275-50=225

divide 225 by 45

225/45=5