Since Cooper made a total of $228.00 within 10 hours, the money he made each hour is equivalent to the rate of change. That means that in order to get the amount of money made in one hour, you must first turn the ten hours into one using division. Since you divided ten into one using division, you divide the $228.00 by ten using division.
228 divided by 10 is 22.8, therefore Cooper is making $22.80 per hour.
