To find the total amount earned, you need to multiply the number of hours worked by the pay rate. Joe worked x hours for 2 days. That’s 2x hours. He worked 8 hours for 2 days. That’s 8(2), or 16 hours. The total number of hours he worked is 2x + 16. He gets paid $9/hour, so an expression for the total amount earned is 9(2x + 16), or 18x + 144.
Joe earns 18x+144 dollars that week with x being the number of unknown working hours on Wednesday and Friday.
Step-by-step explanation:
Joe earns $9/hour, On wednesday and friday he worked a total of 2x hours and on Tuesday and Saturday he worked a total of 16 hours. Let y be the amount of money Joe earned.
To determine how much money Joe earned we must determine how much hours he has work:
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We can determine the amount earned from the total amount of hours work and rate of $9/hour:
