Question

Cilantro earns $17.43 per hour. If Cilantro works 27 hours in a week, what will Cilantro's earnings be for the week?

Answer 1

Let be "x" Cilantro's earnings (in dollars) for the week.

According to the explained in the exercise, Cilantro makes $17.43 per hour and works a total of 27 hours per week.

With that information, you can set up the following proportion:

`\frac{$17.43\text{dollars}$}{1\text{hour}}=\frac{x}{27\text{hours}}`

In order to find the value of "x", you need to solve for it. You can apply the Multiplication property of equality and multiply both sides of the equation by 27 hours.

Therefore, you get this result:

`\begin{gathered} (27\text{hours)(}\frac{$17.43\text{dollars}$}{1\text{hour}})=(\frac{x}{27\text{hours}})(27\text{hours)} \\ x=470.61\text{dollars} \end{gathered}`

Then, Cilantro's earnings for the week will be $470.61