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

Answer 1

To represent the number of hours Tyrell has left to volunteer in order to meet his goal of 26 hours, you can use the following equation:

Let \( h \) represent the number of hours left for Tyrell to volunteer.

The equation can be written as:

\[ h = 26 - 17 \]

This means that Tyrell has \( h \) hours left to volunteer, and he needs to subtract the hours he has already volunteered (17) from his goal (26).

Calculating this gives:

\[ h = 26 - 17 = 9 \]

So, Tyrell has 9 hours left to volunteer for the month to meet his goal.