Question
Andres needed to get his computer fixed. He took it to the repair store. The technician at the store worked on the computer for 5.25 hours and charged him $116 for parts. The total was $719.75. Which equation could be used to determine cc, the cost of labor per hour?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To find the cost of labor per hour (denoted as \( c \)), we can set up an equation based on the information given.
Let:
- \( c \) = cost of labor per hour
- The technician worked for 5.25 hours, so the total labor cost would be \( 5.25c \).
- The technician charged $116 for parts.
The total cost that Andres paid was $719.75. Therefore, we can express the total cost as the sum of the labor cost and the parts cost:
\[
5.25c + 116 = 719.75
\]
This is the equation you can use to determine \( c \), the cost of labor per hour.
Let:
- \( c \) = cost of labor per hour
- The technician worked for 5.25 hours, so the total labor cost would be \( 5.25c \).
- The technician charged $116 for parts.
The total cost that Andres paid was $719.75. Therefore, we can express the total cost as the sum of the labor cost and the parts cost:
\[
5.25c + 116 = 719.75
\]
This is the equation you can use to determine \( c \), the cost of labor per hour.