document.write( "Question 980923: In 4 weeks, Mark earns an average of $400 per week. If, after working another 2 weeks at a constant salary, his average earnings per week become $500 how much did he earn in the third week?
\n" ); document.write( "F. $33.33
\n" ); document.write( "G. $100.00
\n" ); document.write( "H. $600.00
\n" ); document.write( "J. $700.00
\n" ); document.write( "K. $900.00\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Please explain this problem to me, I still don't get it! Thanks?
\n" ); document.write( "PS: I originally got J for this problem but I am starting to regret this because it is asking for the third week! \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There is no way to know the exact amount that was earned in the third week. All you know is that for the first 4 weeks he earned a total of $1600 and that over the entire 6 weeks he earned $3000. Furthermore, since the last two weeks were constant, he must have earned $700 per week. But since there is no information that tells you how the salary was distributed across the first 4 weeks, all you can say for certain is

. Hence, none of the answers given are any more or less correct than any of the others.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it\r
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