Question

DG's Plumbing and Heating charges $50 plus $60 per hour for emergency service. Bill remembers being billed just over $300 for an emergency call. How long to the nearest hour was the plumber at Bill's house? ____ hours

Answer 1

50+60x=300

Answer 2

understand how I got that?

Answer 3

you added 60 and 30

Answer 4

you are going to get charged 50 no matter what, then 60 bucks for each hour
1 hour 50+60(1)
2 hours 50+60(2)
.
.
.
x hours 50+60(x)
and he was billed 300
so
50+60x=300
subtract 50
60x=250
divide by 60
x = 250/60

Answer 5

\[x \approx 4.16\]

Answer 6

and to the nearest hour is 4.0

Answer 7

make sense?

Answer 8

Aw ok it does thanks for clarifying the answer