Word Problem

This method is simply evaluating the question and then solving it.

Stewart's parents pay him a base allowance of five dollars per week and four dollars and sixty cents per hour for extra chores he completes. Mrs. Parker pays Stewart five dollars and twenty cents per hour to lifegurad at the city pool. What is Stewart's total weekly income.

First thing to do is to evaluate the problem to find out the given information needed to solve the problem.

Now that you know that you put it into an equation that should look like this:
I = 4.60x + 5.20y + 5. Afterwards solve for the variables one at a time.

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