Problema Solution
paul has a job raking leaves for a neighbor. he makes $6.50 an hour, plus $0.75 for each bag he fills. Last saturday he worked three hours and made a total of $27.75.how many bags of leaves did he fill?
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let x be number of bags he fills
6.50 * 3 + 0.75 *x=27.50
19.5 +0.75x=27.50
x=10.67 = 11bags