A company pays their employees $20 per hour. Using fractional notation, write a proportion that represents how long an employee must work to make $80. Use x to represent the unknown number of hours.
A. 80/1 = 20/x
B. 1/20 = 80/x
C. 20/x = 1/80
D. 20/1 = 80/x
B. 1/20 = 80/x
The correct proportion would be:
A. 80/1 = 20/x
To write a proportion that represents how long an employee must work to make $80, we need to set up a ratio comparing the amount of money earned to the number of hours worked.
We know that the company pays $20 per hour, so we can set up the following ratio:
Amount of money earned (in dollars) / Number of hours worked = $20 / x
Since we want to find the number of hours worked to make $80, the ratio becomes:
80 / x = 20 / 1
Thus, the proportion that represents how long an employee must work to make $80 is:
A. 80/1 = 20/x