SOLUTION: 1.what is equivilent to 6xmxmxm? 2.Kara earns $54 for 9 hours of babysitting .At that rate , how long would she have babysit to earn $114. a.6 hours b.10 hours c.19 hours

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Question 611476: 1.what is equivilent to 6xmxmxm?

2.Kara earns $54 for 9 hours of babysitting .At that rate , how long would she have babysit to earn $114.
a.6 hours
b.10 hours
c.19 hours
d.28 hours
3.what is the value for x=
for this problem ? -5x- 15=30


Answer by radh(108)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1. To solve this, you could just combine the x's and the m's. There are 3 x's, so that'd be . Do the same with the m's. . So, your final answer would be .

2. Let's make this into a proportion. 54:9 can also be written as 54/9. We could reduce that fraction to 6:1. So, she earns 6 dollars every hour. Now, we'd just plug in the amount of hours to know.
I'll do the first one. . So, she made 36 dollars in 6 hours. Just do that for the rest of those problems. :)

3. You can plug this into Algebra.Com's solver. ( http://www.algebra.com/services/rendering/simplifier.mpl )
Here it is simplified:
It simplifies to Divide both sides by -5 to get .

:)

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