Question

an engineer worked for 6 days and her assistant worked for 7 days on a project. Together they received a salary of $4500.00. The next week the engineer worked 5 days and the assistant 3 days and earned a combined salary of $2900.00. What is the daily salary for each? Engineer $_____ Assistant $____

Answer 1

Write some equations to reflect what you know. Let E be the engineer's daily salary, and A be the assistant's daily salary. For the first project,
\[6*E + 7*A = 4500\]
For the second project,
\[5*E + 3*A = 2900\]
You can solve those two equations in two unknowns by substitution, elimination, etc. to get the values of E and A.

Answer 2

Must be some special assistant!