4. Shelton earns an hourly wage at a grocery store. The following expression represents Shelton’s take home pay after taxes, social security, and his health care plan are deducted. Let x represent the number of hours Shelton worked. 10.25x − 0.21(10.25x)

a) Which term represents Shelton’s total pay before deduction?

b) Shelton wants to save $1,675 for a new laptop. If Shelton saves 25% of his take-home pay, how many hours will he need to work to meet his savings goal?

a)  Shelton’s total pay before deduction: 10.25x

b)  To meet savings goal he'll have to work 827.415869 hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

Take-home pay:

  10.25x − 0.21(10.25x)

  10.25x − 2.1525x

  8.0975x

Save 25% for new laptop:

  .25(8.0975x) = 1675

     2.024375x = 1675

     x = 827.415869 hours

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)