john gets price quotes from two different lawn mowing services for the cost of mowing the field next to his house company A charges $8 plus an additional $5 per hour company B charges $2 plus an additional $6 per hour the total price quote for each company is the same amount how many hours do the companies estimate it will take to mow the field
You could set up a equation for each. Once you have the general equation for both, you can set them equal to each other and solve for x. That is one way to solve it. Example for the Company A is 5x + 8 = y