John makes $12.50/hour gardening. He earned $275 this week. Write the equation for figuring out his wages, and then solve it to find out how many hours he worked.

Answer 1

I'll write the equation & let you solve it. Let me know if you have trouble solving it, though.

The number of hours he works times how much he makes each hour is the total he brings home.

So (hourly wage) x (hours) = total wage

In this case if h=hours, that would be

12.50h = 275