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EXPLANATION
First equation:
Second equation:
Let us equate the two equations and solve for x.
This implies that;
Group similar terms to obtain:
Simplify:
Divide both sides by 3
Put x=-2 into any of the equations.
I will put x=-2 into the first equation:
This implies that,
It's slightly ambiguous because the year isn't an even number of weeks, so sometimes that extra day falls on a weekend and sometimes on a weekday. We'll assume a weekend; that makes the numbers come out nice.
Total working days, 52 five day weeks minus 30 days vacation
So his daily rate is
dollars per day
Answer: A
It's closer to $518 when we count the extra day as a weekday.