A=5/2-1/2b is equal to 4a+2b=10
Answer:
Answer is (b) The worker with 40 hours of training is paid $1400 per month
The answer is 30 I believe
You can divide the whole expression by -3:

Recalling that

Let's compare the middle term:

So, we want to complete

Which differs from
by 16. So, if we add 16 to both sides, we have

A company is selling books. It has to pay $500 to start printing the books, and once they have done that, the books sell at $14.99 each. How many books must they sell to make a profit?
First we would model an equation. X will be the amount of books sold, and Y will be profits (in dollars obv). They had to pay $500 before they could start selling, so we must account for that too.
This equation would be

because for every book sold, X increases by 1, increasing Y by 14.99
The answer would be 34 books sold in order to turn a profit. (500/14.99=