SOLUTION: Jason earns $4.00/hour working after school and he earns $6.00/hour working on saturday. If he works 18 hours in a week and earned $88.00. How many hours did he work on saturday?
Question 4884: Jason earns $4.00/hour working after school and he earns $6.00/hour working on saturday. If he works 18 hours in a week and earned $88.00. How many hours did he work on saturday? Answer by jainenderkapoor(61) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! THIS is a tricky question
Solve it in the following manner
We have to find the number of hours he worked on Saturday ??
Let the number of hours be = x
Now How many hours did he worked in total ??
Yes 18
If he worked x hours on Saturday -- how many hours in the remaining week ??
18 - x
Now we can formulate an equation to find the value of x
First tell me how much he will get for working (18 - x) hours
YES (18 - x) * 4 ($4 multiplied by the number of hours worked)
AND for Saturday he will get
x * 6
SO EQN BECOMES (18 - x)* 4 + x * 6 = 88
18 * 4 - x * 4 + x * 6 = 88
72 - 4x + 6x = 88
2x = 88 - 72
2x = 16
x = 16/2 = 8
So he worked for 8 hours on Saturday
ANd remaining (18 - 8) = 10 hours he worked in the remaining week.
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