Question

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?

Answer 1

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.