Question

A roof repairer works out that he will need to work with a colleage charges $20 per hour. In the end, they took 6 hours to fix the roof.
a. Write an expression with parentheses to describe how much the homeowner ownes for labor.

b. Evaluate your expression to calculate the cost of the labor.​

Answer 1

a) 20(x)=y

b) $120

Let x= number of hours

Let y= Cost of labor

20 will remain constant, what matters is how many hours are being worked. If it's $20 per hour then it's safe to assume 1 hour is 20 dollars worth of labor. Due to it being per hour you have to multiply the rate by however many hours worked to get your final cost.