The Department of Streets of a city has a budget of $1,962,800 for resurfacing roads and hiring additional
workers this year.
The cost of resurfacing a mile of 2-lane road is
estimated at $84,000. The average starting salary of a
worker in the department is $36,000 a year.
1. Write an equation that represents the relationship
between the miles of 2-lane roads the department could
resurface, m, and the number of new workers it could
hire, p, if it spends the entire budget.