Answer:
x = 5.6 or you can write like this: x = 5 3/5
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer: He'd have to work 15 days.
Step-by-step explanation
With the money in his bank account he'd have to get $173 to be able to pay for the rest of the board. If you were to divide 173 by 12 you'd get 14.4166666667. But you can't have a decimal so you'd round up to get a total of 180. Which is how you get the answer of him needing to work for 15 days.
Solve for the first variable in one of the equations, then substitute the result into the other equation.
Y
=
2
y
/3
−
3
x
=
−
y
/3
+
7
Hope this helped!
A rate often involves time: e. g., 33 feet per second; also, we are finding the ratio of one type of measurement with respect to another: distance and time.
A proportion is often the ratio of different measures of the same thing:
e. g. 5 apples
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7 apples