Question

You and your friend each start a car-washing service. You spend $25 on supplies and charge $10 per car. Your friend spends $55 on supplies and charges $13 per car. How many cars do you have to wash to earn the same amount of money as your friend? Math item stem image

Answer 1

10 cars.

Explanation:

Answer 2

For this you can write equations for your business and your friend's. For your's it would be y=10x-25 and for your friend's it would be y=13x-55. Now at this point you can just plug in numbers until you match up. Your answer would be 10, if you want to you can plug it in to check.