document.write( "Question 898010: Please help me solve this equation, I tried and I am not very good... : You work 10 hours and earn 85$, What is your earning rate?\r
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Please help me solve this equation, I tried and I am not very good... : You work 10 hours and earn 85$, What is your earning rate?\r
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document.write( "You are correct! The rate is $8.50 per hour.
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document.write( "It's not that difficult though!! All you had to do was divide the total earnings: $85, by the number of hours 
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document.write( "worked: 10, as follows:
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document.write( "Although the above is much easier, you could have also set it up like you tried to, as follows:
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document.write( ", with R being the per-hour rate
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document.write( "10R = 85 ----- Cross-multiplying 
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document.write( "R, or per-hour rate = , or $ \n" );
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