Ursula works at a print shop. She uses a printer that can print 12 pages per minute. Yesterday she started printing flyers for an order. Today at 8 a.m. she continued working on the order, and by 9 a.m. she had 420 flyers for the order completed.

Write an equation in the form y = mx + b that describes the number of pages, y, that were printed after x minutes.

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8:00 to 9:00 is 60 minutes
at 12 ppm, that would be 720 flyers.

Something is wrong here.
(a) we don't know how many flyers were printed yesterday
(b) were they included in the 420 done by 9:00 today?
(c) was the printer running at full speed?

The numbers don't add up, to me.