Maya is saving up to buy a new graphics tablet for her digital art. She already has $120 saved, and she earns $15 per hour tutoring her peers after school. The graphics tablet she wants costs $300.
Question: > Write an algebraic equation to represent Maya’s savings, and find the minimum number of hours (h) she needs to tutor to afford the tablet.
THE SOLUTION.
To solve this, we can break the problem down into a simple linear equation.

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