You earn a fixed salary working as a sales clerk making $11 per hour. You get a weekly bonus of $100. Your expenses are $60 per
week for groceries and $200 per week for rent and utilities. How many hours do you have to work in order to break even? Please show all steps, and explain.
Shall we make life simpler by eliminating unnecessary numbers. <span>Totally, my expenses would be 60+200 = $260. Let us say that of this $100 would be met by the weekly bonus so that the residual part of the requirement is $160. </span> <span>Let x be the number of hours I work. Then my earning would be 11x. For break even, earning should equal requirement. That is 11x = 160. And so, x = 160/11 = 14.55 hours/week </span>
