Casey is deciding which of two landscapers a higher each landscaper charges an hourly rate plus a fee for each job casey correctly row and solve the system of linear equations by substitution and his work he substituted expression for one variable and salt for the other this read this resulted in the equation 5 equals 20 what can casey can conclude

Both charge the same hourly rate, but a different fee. 

If they charged a different hourly rate, then the number of hours times the difference in rates would have been the result.

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Casey is deciding which of two landscapers a higher each landscaper charges an hourly rate plus a fee for each job Casey correctly row and solve the system of linear equations by substitution and his work he substituted expression for one variable and salt for the other this read this resulted in the equation 5 equals 20 what can Casey can conclude

Both charge the same hourly rate, but a different fee. 

The answer is 49/16 or 3 1/16