Question

The Hair Care Salon charges a stylist $30 per day to rent a station at the salon. Marcella, a stylist, makes $10.50 on each haircut. Write an equation to represent how many haircuts she must give in one day to make $138 after paying rent for her station (do not solve).

Answer 1

x=(p+30)/10.50, where x is the amount of haircuts and p is the profit.

tep-by-step explanation:

From the information given, you know that Marcella's profit would be equal to the price per haircut for the number of haircuts minus the amount to rent a station at the salon per day, which would be:

p=10.50x-30, where p is the profit and x is the amount of haircuts

You can solve for x to find the equation that represents the amount of haircuts she must give in one day to make $138 after paying rent for her station:

p+30=10.50x

x=(p+30)/10.50

The equation is x=(p+30)/10.50 and you can replace p with 138 to find the amount of haircuts needed.