SOLUTION: An employment agency specalizing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $123 per day and general laborers $87 per day. If thirty two people were hired and th
Question 1048715: An employment agency specalizing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $123 per day and general laborers $87 per day. If thirty two people were hired and the payroll was $3900, how many heavy equipment operators were employed? How many laborers? Answer by advanced_Learner(501) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! = =
Solve: We'll use substitution. After moving 1*y to the right, we get: , or . Substitute that
into another equation: and simplify: So, we know that y=1. Since , x=31.