Question

Job A will pay \[\$32,448\] a year. How much money would Sally be making per hour, if pay is based on fifty-two 40-hour weeks.

Answer 1

Hint: In this problem, we have to find how much money Sally would be making per hour, if pay is based on fifty-two 40-hour weeks. We know that the job A will pay \[\$32,448\] a year. We can first find the total hours she worked in a year by multiplying the given hours, then we can divide the total salary to the total hours she worked to get the answer.

Complete step by step answer:
We know that job A will pay \[\$32,448\] a year.
We can now calculate the total hours worked by Sally in a year.
We are given 52 and 40 hours, we can multiply it, we get
\[\Rightarrow 52\times 40=2080\]
Now we can calculate the salary for the hours Sally has worked.
We know that, to calculate hourly rate of pay, we can divide the annual salary by the number of hours worked in a year, we get
Salary for the hours Sally have worked,
\[\Rightarrow \dfrac{32448}{2080}=\$15.60\]

Therefore, the salary for the hours Sally have worked, $15.60.

Note: Students make mistakes while multiplying the total hours, which should be concentrated. We should know that if we divide the total salary to the hours Sally worked, we will get the value of the salary for those hours of working.