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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)
32 dollars
confidence rating #$&*: 3 (Type in a number from 0 to 3, indicating your level of confidence in your solution.
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3 means you are at least 90% confident of your solution, or that you are confident you got at least 90% of the solution
2 means that you are more that 50% confident of your solution, or that you are confident you got at least 50% of the solution
1 means that you think you probably got at least some of the solution correct but don't think you got the whole thing
0 means that you're pretty sure you didn't get anything right)
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Given Solution: 8 dollars / hour means '8 dollars per hour', indicating that for every hour you work you earn 8 dollars. If you work for 4 hours, then if you earn 8 dollars for every one of those hours you earn 4 * 8 dollars = 32 dollars.
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Self-critique (if necessary): ok (If you believe your solution matches the given solution then just type in 'OK'.
Otherwise explain in your own words how your solution differs from the given solution, and demonstrate what you did not originally understand but now understand about the problem and its solution.)
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Self-critique Rating: ok (If you believe your solution matches the given solution then just type in 'OK'.
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