Question

Mariahs earnings rate can be described in dollars per hour or hours per dollar. Mariah earns $10 for each hour she works at a movie theater. State this rate in two different ways, and describe the difference

Answer 1

Answer:

Dollars per hour is $10 and hours per dollar is 6 minutes 15 seconds.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dollars per hour represents how much she earns for each hour of work. Hours per dollar represents how much she works to earn $1.

It is stated that Mariah earns $10 for each hour of work at the movie theater.

This is the "dollars per hour" rate since the base is 1 hour.

This means that she earns 10/60 = $0.16 for every minute she works at the theater. If we divide 1 by this number we find 1/0.16 = 6.25.

This is the minutes she has to work to earn $1. So her hours per dollar rate is 6.25 minutes which is 6 minutes 15 seconds.

I hope this answer helps.