Question

Joan is a babysitter. She earns $8.50 per hour. Joan wants to buy a new phone that costs $161.50 with the tax included. Write an equation relating the number of hours she needs to babysit to the amount of money she earns. Find out how many hours Joan must babysit to buy the phone. Use h to represent the number of hours Joan babysits.

Answer 1

8.5=161.50;h= 19 hours

Explanation:

So its pretty easy all you have to do is multiply 8.5 x 19