SOLUTION: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $ 128 per day and general laborers $ 92 per day. If forty people were hired and the

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Question 1062385: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $ 128 per day and general laborers $ 92 per day. If forty people were hired and the payroll was $ 4868, how many heavy equipment operators were employed? How many laborers?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
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x laborers
y equipment operators
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