SOLUTION: I have 58 hrs this wk = 100% 45.5 one job # and 12.5 another job # what are the % for each job to = 100 % of hrs worked ?

Question 979280: I have 58 hrs this wk = 100% 45.5 one job # and 12.5 another job # what are the % for each job to = 100 % of hrs worked ?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Said better could be, "I have 58 hours as 100% of time this week and two of the jobs took 12.5 hours and an unknown amount of time, each. What is the percent of work time for each job?"

One hundred percent of the work time was 58 hours. One of the jobs was percent of the time, and the other job was .

The computed results are 21.55% and 78.45%.
That is accuracy only to the nearest hundredths of a percent.
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