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
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Hi

Let x represent amount of money Brad earned today

Question Sets Up the Proportion***using seconds

+1000%2F288sec+=+x%2F8400sec+ |cross multiply to solve

 288x = 1000*8400

    x = 1000*8400/288 = $29,166.67