Question

2. Jamie worked 5 hours each day Monday through Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, he worked 2 hours less than he did during the week. How many total hours did he work during the week and weekend? *

Answer 1

Answer:

During the week he worked 25 hours and during the weekend he worked 6 hours.

Explanation:

According to the question above we can see that Jamie worked 5 hours each day from Monday to Friday. Between Monday and Friday we have 5 days, if Jamie worked 5 hours on each of those days, we can calculate 5*5 to know the number of hours Jamie worked during the week. Thus 5*5 is equal to 25, which is the hours worked by Jamie in the week.

However, during the weekend (Saturday and Sunday), Jamie works two hours less per day, which means that he works 3 hours on Saturday and 3 hours on Sunday, totaling 6 hours.