The dress store is having a sale where all merchandise is 1/4 off. a women buys 54 dollars of merchandise at sale price. what would she have had to pay at regular price

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.