Oceanside bike rental shop charges 17 dollars plus 6 dollars an hour for renting a bike. mike paid 71 dollars to rent a bike. how many hours, , did he pay to have the bike checked out? write an equation and solve for . must show your work to receive full credit.

So. We know that Mike paid 71 dollars. We also know that NO MATTER WHAT. He has to pay 17 dollars. So 71-17 is 64. Now, all we need to do is divide 64 dollars, by 6 dollars, to give us the number of hours. 

64/6 = 10.6
So Mike had the bike for 10.6 (approxamently) hours. 

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