Steve makes $7.00/hr delivering newspapers and 0.18 per each paper delivered; how many papers he needs to deliver to earn more than $30/week? Thanks :)

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radar · Answer

It would depend on the number of hours he works as well as the newspaper delivered.  This question seems ambigious.

anonymous · Answer

yeah you need a number of hours or number of papers. since you are asking for number of papers, you need to supply the number of hours man.

anonymous · Answer

That's all I got, thanks :)

radar · Answer

Let x = number of hours
Let y = number of papers delivered
$7.00x + .18y > $30.00

radar · Answer

That's all I can do with this Ally7.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks for your help, have a good night..

radar · Answer

Good luck.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks, I could definitely use it...

anonymous · Answer

ill try some stuff give me a minute

anonymous · Answer

Sure

anonymous · Answer

Alright, I've got it. Pretty cool stuff actually. The equation I got gets you EXACTLY $30, and the week kind of makes no sense, you would just have to run the equation per week in a sense.

anonymous · Answer

Ok, so how do I put it on paper?

anonymous · Answer

Wow this is awesome, works out perfectly. Here goes.

anonymous · Answer

T = number of hours worked.

$$7(T) + .18[(\frac {1500}{9}) - (\frac{350}{9})*T]$$

anonymous · Answer

That will give you the number of papers you need to sell to hit $30. So round up to the nearest integer to get the right answer.

anonymous · Answer

Be mindful of the brackets, parenthesis, and such.

anonymous · Answer

Great, thank you so much for your help

anonymous · Answer

anytime.