SOLUTION: Last week terri worked 9.5 hours. This was 3.5 hours less than the number of hours that Brad worked. how many hours did brad work.

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Let h be the number of hours that Brad worked.

3.5 hours less than that is h - 3.5.

This is equal to 9.5, so:

h - 3.5 = 9.5

Just add 3.5 to both sides.

John



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