Question

The late fee for library books is $2.00 plus 15 cents each day for a book that is late.If Maria's fee for a late book was $3.20,write and solve a linear equation to find many days late the book was.

Answer 1

First we will subtract $2 from $3.2 since that is late fee to get $1.2.

Now we divide $1.2 by $0.15 to get number of cents hence 8 days.

The answer is Maria is 8 days too late to hand over the book.

Hope this helps.