You earn $56 walking your neighbor's dog for 8 hours. Your friend earns $36 painting your neighbor's fence for 4 hours. What is your pay rate? What is your friend's pay rate? Are the pay rates equivalent?

1 Answer
Mar 15, 2018

Your pay rate is $7 per hour
Your friend's pay rate is $9 per hour
No the pay rates are not equivalent.

Explanation:

So if it takes you 8 hours to make $56, you can just divide the total money earned by the time.
So it would be 56 divide 8 which is 7.

And if takes your friend 4 hours to make $36, you can divide like we just did
So it would be 36 divide 4 which is 9.

So you make $7 per hour and your friend makes $9 per hour.