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Question 1154861: Dr. Don offers tutoring service for college students. He charges $40 as a fixed rate for the first hour plus $20 for each additional hour. What is the minimum and maximum number of hours of tutoring a student can get if he or she can afford to spend between $140 and $200? ( express answer as an inequality) Found 3 solutions by mananth, josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
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He charges $40 as a fixed rate for the first hour plus $20 for each additional hour.
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TIME,x COST, y
0 0
1 40
2 40+20
3 40+2*20
4 40+3*20
x 40+20(x-1)
For x=0 y=0
For x=1 y=40
For x more than 1 y=20(x-1)+40
The minimum time for cost $140, --------------six hours of tutoring
The max time if cost $200,
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! Dr. Don offers tutoring service for college students. He charges $40 as a fixed rate for the first hour plus $20 for each additional hour. What is the minimum and maximum number of hours of tutoring a student can get if he or she can afford to spend between $140 and $200? ( express answer as an inequality)
Let each hour of tutoring be h
Then the cost equation is: f(h) = 20(h - 1) + 40
f(h) = 20h - 20 + 40
f(h) = 20h + 20
Therefore, to get number of hours of tutoring for costs between $140 and $200, we have: --- Subtracting 20 --------- Dividing by 20
As seen, minimum and maximum number of hours she can afford are 6 and 9, respectively.
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