Chase makes $8 an hour working after school and $10 an hour working on saturdays. Last week he made $156 working a total of 18 h
ours. How many hours did he work Saturday? My teacher doesn’t explain things very well and we just started doing algebraic word problems. I need some help cause I’m pretty stuck.
So firstly let’s set a ‘algebra’ Let’s make the hours working after school as ‘x’ So Chase works totally 18 hours last week So the hours he works on Saturday is (18-x) And given the salary of working after school is $8 per hour,and the salary of working on Saturday is $10,and he earned $156 So with these we can write a equation 8x+10(18-x)=156 solve it, 8x+180-10x=156 -2x=-24 X=12 as I said x is the hour working after school The hour working on Saturday should be 18-x 18-12=6 Answer is 6
