Question

A plumber $130 to start a job plus $56 per hour. How many hours did she work if the total bill is $214? This problem can be modeled with this equation: 130+56x=214 which operation should be preformed to isolate the variable term?

Answer 1

Combine like terms by subtracting

Explanation:

Answer 2

1.5

Step-by-step explanation: half an hour is 28 dollars. if he worked for 1 hour, it would be 186 +28 which was the left over amount of money to add up to 214, simply put, 1 hour and 30 minutes or 1.5 hours