A company charges a customer$50 to bring an excavator to thier home in addition to $45 per hour for the service A customer has b
udgeted $275 to spend on excavation and the number of hours the excavator is hired is represented by h, determine the maximum number of hours the customer can afford to hire the excavator, (this isn’t part of the question but it uses inequality signs with elimination method or something like that)
the answer is 5 hours or less which is 5 and the < sign with line under which means they have equal to and less than that so the most hours they can do is 5
_____ The angles are corresponding parts of congruent triangles (CPCT). Triangles OBA and OCA are right triangles congruent by the HL postulate. The "H" is segment OA. The "L" is the radius, OB or OC. Of course the angles at B and C are 90° as with any radius and tangent line.
