Joshua mows his neighbors’ yards to earn money during the summer. He charges $20.00 per hour because the amount of time he spends mowing depends on the size of the yard. Joshua has to pay for the gas that his lawnmower uses, which costs him $2.50 per hour on average. He also saves $10.00 from each job to cover the costs of keeping his lawnmower in good working condition.

Joshua's profit is the total amount of money that he collects from a lawn mowing job that takes LaTeX: t t hours minus his costs.

Joshua earned a profit of $60.00 on his last lawn mowing job. Write an equation that can be solved to find how many hours Joshua spent mowing to earn a profit of $60.00.

In your own words, describe each part of your equation (the two expressions that are equal as well as each term of each expression) and explain why each term is a quantity measured in dollars.

The evaluation of your response will be based on the following criteria:

Correctly identifying and describing each of the relevant quantities
Explaining why each term is a quantity measured in dollars
The correctness of your equation relating these quantities