James is a fork-lift operator. He makes $11.50 an hour. Determine his gross earnings if he worked 56 hours in a week.
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I like to reduce everything by half if I don't already know the answer.
It just so happens that is the reduced fraction.
All I did was halve 18, which is 9, and halve 34, which is 17.