Lucy works as a tutor for $7 an hour and as a waitress for $12 an hour. This month, she worked a combined total of 86 hours at her two jobs. Lett be the number of hours Lucy worked as a tutor this month. Write an expression for the combined total dollar amount she earned this month.

Explanation:

The two expressions mentioned add to 86, to indicate the total number of hours for both jobs combined.

We multiply the number of hours by the wage per hour to get the amount earned per job.

Lastly, we add those two subtotals to get the grand total earned

7t + 12(86-t)

Optionally you can distribute the 12 through and combine like terms. I'll leave it like this because I think it's more descriptive to show the two amounts earned from each job.

If you wanted to simplify 7t+12(86-t), then you would get 1032-5t or -5t+1032

the correct answer option is (2x-3)(2x+3).

step-by-step explanation:

we are given the following expression and we are to factorize it:

we are to find such factors that when multiplied they give a result of 36 (9 x 4 = 36) and when added they give a result of 0.

the two such factors of 36 are negative six and postive six.

factorizing the given expression to get:

therefore, the correct factorization of is (2x-3)(2x+3).