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You would use unit rate for this. If Austin makes $209 in 11 hours, then he makes 209/11 = 19 dollars in 1 hour.
Then, we can make a proportion:
$19/1 hour = $152/ x hours
Cross multiply:
152 = 19x
Solve for x to get:
x = 8 hours.
