Dakota needs a total of $400 to buy a new bicycle. He has $40 saved. He earns $15 each week deliveri

Dakota needs a total of $400 to buy a new bicycle. He has $40 saved. He earns $15 each week delivering newspapers. How many weeks will Dakota have to deliver papers to have enough money to buy the bicycle?

Let w be the number of weeks of delivering newspapers. We have the equation:
15w + 40 = 400

To solve for w, we type this equation into our search engine and we get:
w = 24