Mathew has a summer job delivering newspapers. He earns $6.00 an hour plus $0.25 per newspaper delivered. Mathew delivers 30 newspapers per hour. How much money will he earn during a 3 hour shift?
+738 since he works for 3 hours, he gets 3*6= $18
he also delivers 30 newspapers per hour, and since he works 3 hours, he delivers 90 newspapers in total. 90*0.25=$22.5
$18+$22.5=$40.50
lets first get the total for one hour.
We know that he get paid $6 an hour along with this he gets 0.25 per newspaper delivered meaning the equation would be
Total earning in hour = 0.25n + 6
since we know that he runs 30 newspapers in an hour we can add it into our equation
Total earning in hour = 0.25(30) + 6
now doing some simple math we know that 0.25 times 30 is equal to 7.5
making our equation look like this
Total earning in hour = 7.5 + 6
then add those together to get
Total earning in hour = 13.5
Therefore he gets $13.5 every hour
finally we know he works three hours meaning it would look like this
3 x 13.5
which equals 40.5
therefore he earns $40.5 every in three hours
