One evening Carly earned a total of $61 as a waitress at the local chili parlor. She earns $5 an hour and received $36 in tips. How many hours did she spent waitressing that evening?

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One evening Carly earned a total of $61 as a waitress at the local chili parlor. She earns $5 an hour and received $36 in tips. How many hours did she spent waitressing that evening?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-20T13:25:46

$h = 5$ $h = 5$
She served for 5 hours.

Explanation:

First, let's set up an equation to represent this data by using the $y = m x + b$ $y = mx + b$ format:

$61 = 5 h + 36$ $61 = 5h + 36$ , where 61 is the total amount she earned, 5h is her hourly pay, and 36 is the additional money she earned from tips.

Because this is a two-step equation, we'll remove any additional terms first before isolating for $h$ $h$ . So, let's cancel out 36 by subtracting 36 from both sides. This should leave you with:

$25 = 5 h$ $25 = 5h$

To solve for $h$ $h$ , divide both sides by 5.

$5 = h$ $5 = h$

Therefore, $h = 5$ $h = 5$ , so she was served for 5 hours.

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