Answer:
10 or 1000 in hundreds of units
Step-by-step explanation:
Given the supply curve of portable radio rentals:

and the demand curve for portable radio rentals:

we need to find the equilibrium of these two curves ( replace either's right hand side on the other's left hand side)
we have:

solving we have
or
in hundreds of units
Now the noise is equal to 3, therefore, we have to find the social supply curve by adding 3 to the first supply curve. following:

We find the intersection bewteen the social supply curve and the demand curve ( social equilibrium rental ):

Which gives
or
in hundreds of units.
Now that we integrated the noise into our considerations, the equilibrium rental exceeds the social equilibrium rental by 10 (50-40) (1000 in hundreds of units)
The inverse is f^-1(x) = 2/7 + x/7
The steps involving properties of equality are shown in painful detail.
For Step 4, you add 7 to both sides of the equation (with the goal of cancelling the -7 on the left). So you have
6x -7 +7 = 12 +7 . . . . . . . showing 7 added to both sides
In the next step, this is simplified to the way you might have written it to start with:
6x = 19
There should be no confusion in any of this. All solutions of all equations make use of the properties of equality like this. Addition is used to cancel subtraction, division is used to cancel multiplication. (Root-taking cancels powers, and vice-versa; inverse trig functions cancel trig functions; and so on.)