SOLUTION: an employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $139 per day and general laborers $96 per day. If thirty-nine people were hired and

Question 924993: an employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $139 per day and general laborers $96 per day. If thirty-nine people were hired and the payroll was $4948, 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 heavy equipment operators employed
Let = number of laborers employed
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(1)
(2)
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Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract (1) from (2)
(2)
(1)

and
(1)
(1)
28 heavy equipment operators were employed
11 laborers were employed
check:
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK

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