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Karmen just got hired to work at Walmart. She spent $15 on her new uniform and she gets paid $8 per

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Karmen just got hired to work at Walmart. She spent $15 on her new uniform and she gets paid $8 per hour. Write an equation that represents how much money she profits after working for a certain number of hours. How many hours will she have to work for in order to buy a new snowboard ( which costs $450)

Her profit equation P(h) where h is the number of hours worked is:
P(h) = 8h - 15
Note: We subtract 15 as the cost of Karmen's uniform.

Next, we want to see how many hours Karmen must work to buy a new snowboard which costs $450.
We set the profit equation equal to $450
8h - 15 = 450

Typing 8h - 15 = 450 into the search engine, we get h = 58.13. We round this up to 59 hours.
 
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