Question

diane works at a gardening store, and today she is helping assemble gas trimmers to be sold. an employee from an earlier shift already assembled 7 trimmers, and diane can assemble 4 trimmers per hour. write an equation that shows how the total number of trimmers assembled, y, depends on the number of hours diane spends assembling them, x. y =

Explanation:

Step1: Determine the number of trimmers Diane assembles

Diane assembles 4 trimmers per hour, so in \( x \) hours, she assembles \( 4x \) trimmers.

Step2: Add the trimmers already assembled

There are 7 trimmers already assembled. So the total number of trimmers \( y \) is the sum of the trimmers Diane assembles in \( x \) hours and the 7 already assembled. So the equation is \( y = 4x + 7 \).

Answer:

\( 4x + 7 \)