You are working to save money for a trip. You need to save $1,500. You already have $250 saved, and make $10 an hour at your job. Write and solve an equation to represent how many hours, h, you need to work to make the rest of the money. SHOW YOUR WORK!

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.