Question

An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $139 per day and general laborers $97 per day. If thirty-four people were hired and the payroll was $3928, how many heavy equipment operators were employed? How many laborers?

Answer 1

h = heavy eq op, and g = general labs
h + g = 34
139h + 97g = 3928
These are the two equations you will use.
you can turn this into a substitution problem and solve. Do you know how to do that ?

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

good to hear :)