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Translating the words into formula, we have
In fact, we have that the pay rate is the total payment divided by the number of hours worked.
We can solve this formula for w in two steps: starting from the formula above, multiply both sides by w:
And then divide both sides by r:
Answer:
x=3
Step-by-step explanation:
Set equations equal to each other:
Subtract two from both sides
Factor out x^2 from the left side
Factor the right side, look for two factors of 9, which add to -6, which is just -3 and-3
So as you can see here, we have both sides in factored form, and both have a factor of (x-3) on both sides, and if one of the factors is zero, then the entire thing becomes zero, since 0 * anything= zero.
this means a solution would be at x=3, since it makes the right side 0 * 0 = 0, and the left side (3)^2 * 0 = 0
It's important to notice this, since had we divided by x-3 to make the equation a quadratic, we would've excluded this real solution, because when dividing by x-3 the solution x=3 makes it 0, so we would've been dividing by zero.
So one of the real solutions is at x=3