76.25 is the answer because 1525 divided by 20 equals 76.25
Basically its 250 + 16x = 210 + 18x where x = the number of hours doing the job.
Solving, we get 40 = 2x, x =20
The jobs has to be 20 hours long in order for their two painting jobs to be equally priced.
Hope this helped!
Perform the indicated multiplications...
12x*x+12x*2-5*2x-5*(-1)
12x^2+24x-10x+5 combine like terms
12x^2+14x+5
We can use the Front Outside Inside Last (FOIL) method to expand the double bracket

Front ⇒

Outside ⇒

Inside ⇒

Last ⇒

Put the four terms together we have

, then collect like terms