Question

You earn a new a weekly allowance of five dollars and your neighbor is paying you 7.50 per hour for shoveling the driveway how many hours,x, Master work this week if you wanna earn more than $30

Answer 1

Hours of work= 3.5

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

Allowance= $5

Hourly pay= $7.5

Desired profit= $31

To calculate the number of hours to work, we need to use the following formula:

Hours of work= shoveling pay / hourly pay

Hours of work= (31 - 5)/7.5

Hours of work= 26/7.5

Hours of work= 3.5