Question

Angel works in a dentist’s office making $13.50 an hour. She works 40 hours per week. How much does she make in a year?

Answer 1

This is a 2 part question, so we will go step by step

Since Angel makes 13.50 an hour, and she works 40 hours a week, we have to make an equation and solve it. 


First, let's make the equation, and we should multiply. Why?

Because finding out how much she made in a week would make it easier to find out how much she makes in a year. To find out how much she makes in a week, we need to add 13.50 40 times, and multiplication is an easier way of doing that.

Now to set it up, 40 is the number we are multiplying by (Because 40 is how many hours she works, and 13.50 is how much she makes in that hour)

and 13.50 is the number getting multiplied

Now we insert numbers into typical multiplication format

13.50 x 40 = ?

Now we solve

13.50 x 40 = 540

So she makes 540 dollars in a week, now we need to multiply that by the number of weeks they are in a year and we are done.

With a little help from Google, we can learn that there are in 52.1 weeks in a common year. 

Now we do the same thing we did the last time and insert our numbers into the equation.

(52.1 is what we are multiplying by, and 540 is the number that is getting multiplied.)

540 x 52.1 = ?

Solve

540 x 52.1 = 28,134

She makes 28,134 in a year

Hope this helped!