Explain the relationship between a strategy, such as number sense, and a written method, such as partial products or area models, for multiplying decimal numbers.

Val and tony get paid per project. val is paid a project fee of $44 plus $12 per hour. tony is paid a project fee of $35 plus $15 per hour. write an expression to represent how much a company will pay to hire both to work the same number of hours on a project.