Problema Solution

Sophie earns a salary of $500per month for working 5 hours a day. In May, Sophie worked additional hours at $14 per hour and earned $570 for the month.

Write an equation to model this situation where x 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