Roberto bought a new recliner. He was able to pay $200 at the time he received the recliner. He wiil pay $20 each moth on the balance. The original cost of the recliner was $400. a. Let x represent the number of months needed to pay off the cost of the recliner . Explain how the equation 200 + 20x = 400 represents this situation.

y=mx+

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step-by-step explanation:

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8.75

how-to:

first, we need to find what we have to work with.

since i know that we have 7 (years) and 0.8 (inches), we can use these to solve and find the equation!

secondly, what you want to do, is see that we need to know how much growth out of the 0.8 inches he got in only 1 year, instead of 7 years.

let's try to divide.

7 ÷ 0.8 = 8.75