2. Let's make this into a proportion. 54:9 can also be written as 54/9. We could reduce that fraction to 6:1. So, she earns 6 dollars every hour. Now, we'd just plug in the amount of hours to know.
I'll do the first one.
3. You can plug this into Algebra.Com's solver. ( http://www.algebra.com/services/rendering/simplifier.mpl )
Here it is simplified:
It simplifies to
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