Bonifacio works 40 hours per week as a customer service representative. If he made $17,680 last year, how much was he paid per hour?

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-27T03:58:55

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Assuming a 52 week year, we can determine the total number of hours Bonifacio worked last year by evaluating:

$52 "weeks" xx (40 "hours")/"week" =>$

$52 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("weeks"))) xx (40 "hours")/color(red)(cancel(color(black)("week"))) =>$

$52 xx 40" hours" =>$

$2080" hours"$

If he made a total of $17,680 we can determine how much he was paid per hours by evaluating:

$($17680)/(2080" hours") => ($8.50)/"hour"$

Assuming a 52 week year, Bonifacio was paid $8.50 per hour.