Question

A cable installer charges $30.00 per hour plus a $50.00 service charge. Your father's firm hires him to hook up his company's Internet service.

Find the total charges if it takes the cable installer 8.5 hours to complete the task.

Answer 1

we have the conditions here that one part of the bill is dependant upon the number of hours worked; while the other part of the bill is the same no mater what happens.

the total cost of the bill ahs to be an addition of these 2 right?

Answer 2

ahs = has

Answer 3

Indeeds.
I do think it is

Answer 4

lets consider this as 2 seperate bills;

First bill = 50
Second bill = $30 for each hour worked, or 30h

total bill = 30h + 50 for any given hours worked

Answer 5

solve this for h = 8.5 and what do we get?

Answer 6

Right, which would give me a total of 305

Answer 7

thats right, and for a dbl chk..

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=30(8.5%2B50)#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&source=hp&q=30(8.5)%2B50&pbx=1&oq=30(8.5)%2B50&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=76477l77995l0l78861l2l2l0l0l0l0l118l188l1.1l2l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=116a3ca570808e30&biw=1024&bih=677

Answer 8

Thank you

Answer 9

youre welcome :)

Answer 10

over 8 hours to connect the internet? yikes, how does he keep his job?!