Question

celeste wants to have her hair cut and permed and also go to lunch. she knows she will need $59. The perm cost twice as much as her haircut and she needs $5 for lunch. How much does her perm cost?

Answer 1

help please

Answer 2

perm= 2h
lunch = 5
so 2h+h+ 5 = 59

Answer 3

so what would i replace h with

Answer 4

what do you mean replace? just solve for H then we work from there

Answer 5

so h would be 18

Answer 6

yes, now that you know how much hair cut cost you could figure our the perm's cost

Answer 7

so i would subtract 59 and 5 and get 54 then subtract 54 from 18 to get 36 so the perm cost 36

Answer 8

thanks for the help

Answer 9

another way you could have gotten the answer is multiplying 18 by 2 because in the prob it states the hair cut is half the perm so