A person mailing postcards earns a fixed amount for each postcard he mails yesterday his hourly wage was $14 an hour if he worked 5 hours yesterday and mailed 300 postcards how …

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asked Aug 2, 2023 221k views

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Danp · Answer 1 · 2023-08-09T10:47:56+0000

Since he worked for 5 hours on a $14/hour hourly waged, we have the following numerator

$(\$14*5)$

In those 5 hours, he mailed 300 postcards which means that he earns for each postcard mailed at

$(\$14*5)/(300)=0.23333...$

Rounding to 2 decimal places, he earns around $0.23 per postcard.