SOLUTION: Brad Pitt earns $1,000 every 4minutes and 48 seconds. He is in a new film and todays taping runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Write an equation and solve it to find the amount

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Question 399380: Brad Pitt earns $1,000 every 4minutes and 48 seconds. He is in a new film and todays taping runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Write an equation and solve it to find the amount of money Brad earned today. Round to nearest cents as needed

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi
Let x represent amount of money Brad earned today
Question Sets Up the Proportion***using seconds
AMP Parsing Error of [ 1000/288sec = x/8400sec ]: Invalid function '=x/8400\sec': opening bracket expected at /home/ichudov/project_locations/algebra.com/templates/Algebra/Expression.pm line 70. . |cross multiply to solve
288x = 1000*8400
x = 1000*8400/288 = $29,166.67
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