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Question: `q001. If you are earning money at the rate of 8 dollars / hour and

work for 4 hours, how much money do you make during this time? Answer in such a

way as to explain your reasoning as fully as possible. A solution to this

problem appears several lines below, but enter your own solution before you look

at the given solution.

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Your solution: (type in your solution starting in the next line)

The rate of pay for each hour worked is $8.00,if I worked a total of 4 hours you would multiply 8 by 4 to get $32.00 as

the solution if no taxes are taken out.