Rob is saving to buy a new MP3 player. For every $14 he earns babysitting, he saves $6. On Saturday, Rob earned $56 babysitting. How much money did he save?
If he earned $56, he saved sli

Rob has saved $24.

Step-by-step explanation:

The first thing I noticed was that Rob only saved some of the money he earned. That means only x% only gets saved. To find x, I simply divided 6 by 14 and got 0.42857142857. Then to find the amount he saved from earning $56, I multiplied that number with 56 and got 24.

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take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: