Question

Trash management charges its customers a fee of $25 plus $8 for each trash can they need emptied. If a customer received a bill for $65, how many trash cans did they need emptied? **When writing the equation, be sure to use correct form, NO capital letters (x only), and NO spaces

Answer 1

65-25= 40
40/8=5
They had 5 trash cans cleaned

Answer 2

28+8x

12x

Explanation:

you would plug in numbers for x until one of them is cheaper in this case waste away is cheaper by $8 after 5 trash cans