A town's total allocation for police officers wages and benefit in a new budget os $800,000. If wages are calculated at $55,000 per officer and benefits at $25,000 per officer, write an equation where the solution is the number of officers the town can employee, if they spend their whole budget

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Hayley Velazquez

20 November, 06:22

A town's total allocation for police officers wages and benefit in a new budget os $800,000. If wages are calculated at $55,000 per officer and benefits at $25,000 per officer, write an equation where the solution is the number of officers the town can employee, if they spend their whole budget

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Karly Dyer · Answer 1

The amount of money paid to each of the officer is the sum of the wage and the benefits. This amount is equal to $80,000. The number of officers (n) that can be hired by the town is the quotient of the total budget and the pay per employee.

n = ($800,000) / $80,000

n = 10

Thus, the number of employees is 10.