A new clerk in your office is to earn 450 per week. If she works 30.5 hours each week, what is her hourly rate?
You have two numbers. Do you think you should
add?
subtract?
multiply?
divide?
What answer do you get?
To find the hourly rate, we need to divide the total weekly earnings by the number of hours worked each week.
In this case, the new clerk is earning $450 per week and works 30.5 hours each week.
So, to calculate the hourly rate, we divide the weekly earnings by the hours worked:
Hourly rate = Weekly earnings / Hours worked
Plugging in the values, we get:
Hourly rate = $450 / 30.5
Now we can calculate the hourly rate:
Hourly rate = $14.75
Therefore, the clerk's hourly rate is $14.75.