Problema Solution
An excavating company charges $200 an hour for the use of a backhoe and $500 an hour for the use of a bulldozer. (Part of an hour counts as a full hour.) The company employs one operator for 40 hours per week to operate the machinery. If the company wants to bring in at least $18,200 each week from equipment rental, how many hours per week can it schedule the operator to use a backhoe?
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Per hour charges
200
Intended earnings
18200
No. of rental hours required to earn intended earnings.
91
hours
(18200/200)