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Peter hired a cleaning company to clean his house. The cleaning company charges a
fixed fee of $15 plus $17 per hour to clean a house.
a. Write an equation that can be used to determine, c, the total amount in dollars that
the cleaning company charges to clean a house in h hours.

Answer 1

To find the total cost you need to multiply the hourly rate by the number of hours they work and add the fixed fee.

C = 17h + 15