Oceanside Bike Rental Shop charges 12 dollars plus 7 dollars an hour for renting a bike. Sandy paid 40 dollars to rent a bike. How many hours did she pay to have the bike checked out?

x = # of hours the bike was rented.

$40 = $12 + $7x

Subtract $12 from both sides.

$28 = $7x

Divide both sides by $7

4 = x

Sandy rented the bike for 4 hours.

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step-by-step explanation:

(x,y)

x tells you how much left or right you go from the origin

y tells you how much down or up you go from the origin

so for example (-3,2), you go left 3 and up twice. i denoted which of the ordered pairs is which in my graph.