Question

You and your friend rent a kayak. It costs $40 for the fi rst 4 hours and $7.50 for each extra hour. Your total cost is $62.50. Write and solve an equation to fi nd the number of extra hours you rented the kayak.

Answer 1

$40 + $7.50x = 62.50 so what you do is take 62.50 - 40 = 22.50 and divide 22.50 by 7.50 which is 3 so 3 hours