SOLUTION: Your family is moving into a new home. Rather than do the work yourselves, you get price quotes from two different moving companies. Starving Students Movers charges $100 for the

Question 389351: Your family is moving into a new home. Rather than do the work yourselves, you get price quotes from two different moving companies. Starving Students Movers charges $100 for the first hour and $50 for subsequent hours. Allied Movers charges $60 for each hour. After how many hours will it be more advantageous to have Starving Student move your families junk?
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the number of hours. Then,

100 + 50(x-1) < 60x

50 + 50x < 60x

50 < 10x

5 < x

If we use whole-numbers for the number of hours, then 6 hours makes Starving Student cheaper.
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