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.

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.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

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

The cost of the monitor is $127.95.
The cost of each hard drive is $68.50.
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.