Question

A student's pay of $18 an hour is $4 more than twice the amount the student earns per hour at an internship. Enter and solve an equation to find the hourly pay of the internship.

Answer 1

1. You have that a student's pay of $18 an hour is $4 more than twice the amount the student earns per hour at an internship.

2. So, let's call the hourly pay of the internship: "x". Then, you have:

18=2x+4

3. When you clear the variable "x", you obtain:

18-4=2x
14=2x
x=14/2
x=$7

Therefore, the answer is: The hourly pay of the internship is $7.