Problema Solution

Sophie earns a salary of 450 per month for working 4 hours a day. In May, Sophie worked additional hours at 8 per hour and earned 482 for the month.

Write an equation to model this situation where is the number of additional hours she worked in May.

Answer provided by our tutors

If salary of the month is S and number of extra hours is x

then the eqn is S = 500 + 14xANS