SOLUTION: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $129 per day and general laborers $92 per day. if 39 people were hired and the payro
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Question 1113180: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $129 per day and general laborers $92 per day. if 39 people were hired and the payroll was $4624, how many heavy equipment operators were employed? how many laborers?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of h.e.o. hired
Let = number of laborers hired
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(1)
(2)
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Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract (1) from (2)
(2)
(1)
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and
(1)
(1)
(1)
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28 h.e.o's were hired
11 laborers were hired
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check:
(2)
(2)
You can finish
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