Sam is an accountant. he finds that he spends two-fifths of his work day answering emails. if he kept 3.6 hours answering emails yesterday, how many hours did he work?

Let the total hours that Sam has in a workday be depicted by the letter x.

Sam finds that he spends two-fifths of his work day answering emails which amounts to 3.6 hours.

If we write the above information mathematically, we will get:

We will now isolate x. Thus we have:

hours

Thus Sam has a typical workday of 9 hours. Out of this he spends 3.6 hours writing emails. Therefore, the number of hours Sam worked is:

9-3.6= 5.4 hours.

a.   since the profit made in 2012 is equal to the profit made in 2014, the profit is symmetric about the line y = 120,000.

step-by-step explanation:

y=x+9

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