SOLUTION: 2. Sven sells hamburgers at a ballpark. He earns $7.50/h, plus $0.40 for each hamburger he sells. a) How much will seven earn in a 3-h shift if he sells 24 hamburgers? b) How man

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Question 1173485: 2. Sven sells hamburgers at a ballpark. He earns $7.50/h, plus $0.40 for each hamburger he sells.
a) How much will seven earn in a 3-h shift if he sells 24 hamburgers?
b) How many hamburgers must sven sell to earn $100 in a 6.5-h shift?
Answer by math_helper(2461) About Me  (Show Source):
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a) 3*7.50 + 24*0.4
b) (100-(6.5)*(7.5)) / 0.4
You can evaluate the expressions yourself (be sure to properly apply PEMDAS).
For (b) you will need to round the answer up to the nearest integer number of hamburgers 


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