SOLUTION: Kylie works at the mall and earns $6 an hour. This week kylie worked: Monday- 4:28p.m./8:04a.m. Tuesday- 3:10p.m./8:34p.m. Wednesday- 3:23p.m./8:45p.m. Thursday- 2:18p.m./5:41

Question 254365: Kylie works at the mall and earns $6 an hour. This week kylie worked:
Monday- 4:28p.m./8:04a.m.
Tuesday- 3:10p.m./8:34p.m.
Wednesday- 3:23p.m./8:45p.m.
Thursday- 2:18p.m./5:41p.m.
Friday- 1:21p.m./5:50p.m.
How much did Kylie earn?
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Kylie works at the mall and earns $6 an hour. This week kylie worked:
Monday- 4:28p.m./8:04a.m.
Tuesday- 3:10p.m./8:34p.m.
Wednesday- 3:23p.m./8:45p.m.
Thursday- 2:18p.m./5:41p.m.
Friday- 1:21p.m./5:50p.m.
How much did Kylie earn?

You have this worker working from 4:28 pm until 8:04 a.m. the next day, which doesn't seem likely. Textbooks may use pretend problems, but generally, they create realistic scenarios. Before accepting this answer, you may want to double check what you have listed as the hours. The way to solve this problem will remain the same, but different data will, of course, affect the outcome.

If the hours are listed correctly, the following will hold true:

First, let's consider what $6/hour is. We can easily multiply $6 times the number of hours worked, but what about the minutes? There are many ways to do this problem, but one easy way is to find out how much this person is paid per minute.

You can ask yourself: What number times 60 minutes equals $6? Or in equation form that is:

(divided both sides by 60 to isolate the "x")

In other words, Kyle is paid $6 per hour, which is .10 (10 cents) per minute.

Now let's look at how many hours were worked:

Monday- 4:28p.m./8:04a.m. ............. This is 15 hours 36 minutes
Tuesday- 3:10p.m./8:34p.m. ............ This is 5 hours 24 minutes
Wednesday- 3:23p.m./8:45p.m. .......... This is 5 hours 22 minutes
Thursday- 2:18p.m./5:41p.m. ........... This is 3 hours 33 minutes
Friday- 1:21p.m./5:50p.m............... This is 4 hours 29 minutes
...............................TOTAL.........32 hours 144 minutes

Let's change those 144 minutes to hours by dividing by 60.

= 2 hours and 24 minutes. We add those hours to the 32 we already have and our grand total of time is:

32 hours + 2 hours and 24 minutes = 34 hours and 24 minutes

Now let's multiply 34 hours times $6 AND
we'll multiply 24 minutes times .10

Now let's add the dollar amounts:

$204 + $2.40 = 206.40

I hope this helps. :-)
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