SOLUTION: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $134 per day and general laborers $100 per day. If forty people were hired and the p

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Question 1035533: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $134 per day and general laborers $100 per day. If forty people were hired and the payroll was $4918, how many heavy equipment operator's were employed? How many laborers?
Answer by jorel555(1290) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let n be general laborers. Then:
100n+134(40-n)=4918
100n+5360-134n=4918
34n=442
n=13
There were 13 general laborers, and 40-13, or 27 heavy equipment operators!!!!!