SAT Linear equations in one variable Practice Question 6 (Easy)

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A gym charges a one-time joining fee of $\$30$ and a monthly fee of $\$18$ . Maria has paid the gym a total of $\$246$ , including the joining fee. For how many months has Maria paid the monthly fee?

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Answer: 12

If $m$ is the number of months, then $18m + 30 = 246$ . Subtract 30: $18m = 216$ . Divide by 18: $m = 12$ .

Dividing $246$ by $18$ without subtracting the joining fee gives about $13.7$ , which is not correct.

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