Question

Obasi earns 150% of his regular hourly wage while working overtime. What fraction of his regular hourly wage does Obasi earn while working overtime?

Answer 1

Answer:

3/2

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

$\frac{3}{2}$

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given that Obasi earns 150% of his regular hourly wage while working overtime.

Since we know that percent is fraction out of 100. Percent means per hundred, so we can replace % sign by per hundred.

Upon converting 150% to fraction we will get,  

$150\%=\text{150 per hundred}=\frac{150}{100}$

We can see that our percent is whole number, so we will reduce our fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by greatest common factor.

We  can see that 50 is GCF of 150 and 100, so we can write our fraction as:

$150\%=\frac{3*50}{2*50}$

Now let us cancel out 50 from numerator and denominator.

$150\%=\frac{3}{2}$

We can also represent our fraction as a mixed fraction.

$150\%=\frac{3}{2}=1\frac{1}{2}$

Therefore, Obasi earns $\frac{3}{2}$ of his regular hourly wages, while working overtime.