A plumber charges a flat fee of $ 79 to visit a home and examine a clogged drain. The plumber charges an additional $29 per hour spent fixing the drain. The total cost, C (in dollars), for fixing a drain that takes h hours is given by the following
C=29h+79
Answer the following questions.
(a) If the plumber charged a total of $398, how many hours did he spend fixing
the drain?

(b) What is the total cost for fixing a drain that takes 5 hours?

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Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation