Answer:
- $52
- this estimate is a little low
Explanation:
a) I might choose 6 1/2 hours and $8 per hour, so the estimated earnings would be ...
6(8) +(1/2)(8) = 52 dollars . . . . estimated earnings
These values are purposely chosen so that one is a little high and the other is a little low, hopefully producing a closer estimate than if both numbers were high (as 7 hours, $8, for example).
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b) Using 800 instead of 790 means the pay estimate is about 1/80 = 1.25% high.
Using 6 1/2 instead of 6 3/4 means the hours estimate is about 1/27 ≈ 3.7% low.
So, we expect the product of these values to be slightly low, perhaps by about 2.5%.
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<em>Comment on estimating</em>
If you can estimate the error in the estimate with some reasonable accuracy, you can use that to adjust the estimate to a pretty close value.
17. 5/4.5 = apx. 3.89
Hope this helps!
<span>17x-2=7x+8
We simplify the equation to the form, which is simple to understand
<span>17x-2=7x+8
We move all terms containing x to the left and all other terms to the right.
<span>+17x-7x=+8+2
We simplify left and right side of the equation.
<span>+10x=+10
We divide both sides of the equation by 10 to get x.
<span>x=1</span></span></span></span></span>
