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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)
8 dollars an hour and you work for four hours. So 8 times 4 is 32. So you earn 32 dollars.
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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
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Question: `q002. If you work 12 hours and earn $168, then at what rate, in dollars / hour, were you making money?
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Your solution: (type in your solution starting in the next line)
$168 divided by 12 is 14 so you would have earned 14 dollars an hour and worked for twelve hours to gain $168. So the rate is $14/ hour.
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Given Solution: $168 earned in 12 hours implies that $168 / 12 = $14 were made per hour, so the rate is $14 / hour.
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