A writer was paid $27,000 for a 3,000-word article. Find the rate per word
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add?
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multiply?
divide?
Multiply
27,000 * 3,000 = $81,000,000 a word
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To find the rate per word, we need to divide the total payment by the number of words in the article. In this case, the writer was paid $27,000 for a 3,000-word article.
To find the rate per word, we divide $27,000 by 3,000:
Rate per word = $27,000 / 3,000 words
To calculate this, we simply divide the total payment by the number of words in the article:
Rate per word = $9
Therefore, the rate per word for the article is $9.