Question

An office manager paid $675.95 for computer equipment. The office manager bought one monitor for $127.95 and hard drives for $68.50 each. Let x represent the number of hard drives she purchased.
Write an equation that represents this situation.

Answer 1

To represent the situation with an equation, we start by noting the costs involved:

1. The cost of the monitor is $127.95.
2. The cost of each hard drive is $68.50.
3. The total cost for the computer equipment is $675.95.

Let \( x \) represent the number of hard drives purchased. The total cost for the hard drives would then be \( 68.50x \).

The equation representing the total cost is:

\[
127.95 + 68.50x = 675.95
\]

This equation accounts for the cost of the monitor plus the cost of the hard drives equating to the total amount spent by the office manager.