Tyrell has a goal to spend 26 hours each month volunteering in a community library. So far for this month, he has volunteered for 17 hours. Write a working equation that represents the number of hours, h , that Tyrell still needs to volunteer to reach his goal for this month and solve this equation. (1 point)

Question

h + 17 =

h =

Answer 1

To represent the number of hours, \( h \), that Tyrell still needs to volunteer to reach his goal of 26 hours, you can set up the equation:

\[ h + 17 = 26 \]

Now, to solve for \( h \), subtract 17 from both sides:

\[ h = 26 - 17 \]

Calculating the right side:

\[ h = 9 \]

So, Tyrell still needs to volunteer 9 hours to reach his goal for this month.