SOLUTION: you have paid $220.00 for 2 men and they worked 1.5 hours. How much an hour did they make?

SOLUTION: you have paid $220.00 for 2 men and they worked 1.5 hours. How much an hour did they make?

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Question 699213: you have paid $220.00 for 2 men and they worked 1.5 hours. How much an hour did they make?
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
A few ways to answer this.
If 2 guys got $220.00 for 1.5 hours, then they'd make $440.00 for 3 hours, right?
So we could divide 3 into 440. Answer is:
They made $146.67 an hour. Or we could simple divide 220 by 1.5 and get the same answer.
Make sense?
RJ
www.math-unlock.com
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