J and M were each paid x dollars in advance to do…

J and M were each paid x dollars in advance to do a certain job together. J worked on the job for 8 hours and M worked for 2 hours less than J. If M gave J y dollars of her payment so that they would have received the same hourly wage, what was the dollar amount, in terms of y, that J was paid in advance?

This problem repeats another one in the library (at most with different numbers), so it's left out of browsing.

AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #8825