Julie is a math tutor in the academic center. She charges $210 for the first 7 hours of tutoring and $20 for each additional hour of tutoring. If she earned $410 tutoring 1 student, how many total hours did she spent tutoring the student?

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pfenn1 · Answer

Total amount earned equals the initial charge for the first 7 hours plus the hourly charge for the additional hours times the number of hours above 7 hours.  Can you write this in the form of an equation?