Maggie earns money from working at the pet store and answering phones. She earns $10 each hour she works at the pet store and $0.25 for each phone call she answers. Maggie answered 60 phone calls and earned $115 last week. What would this look like as an equation

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Logan Fletcher

5 December, 19:10

Maggie earns money from working at the pet store and answering phones. She earns $10 each hour she works at the pet store and $0.25 for each phone call she answers. Maggie answered 60 phone calls and earned $115 last week. What would this look like as an equation

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Kiley Norton · Answer 1

We first begin this equation with 115=10x+0.25 (60) because she answered 60 phone calls and we multiply them for each one she answers which give us:

115=10x+15 now we subtract our 15 from both sides. which gives us:

100=10x now we divide to give us our final answer:

x=10 hours.