Question

a person mailing postcards earns a fixed amount for each postcard he mails yesterday his hourly wage was $14 an hour if he worked 5 hours yesterday and mailed 300 postcards how much does he earn for each postcard mailed? show you work

Answer 1

Since he worked for 5 hours on a $14/hour hourly waged, we have the following numerator

$(\ 14\times5)$

In those 5 hours, he mailed 300 postcards which means that he earns for each postcard mailed at

$\frac{\ 14\times5}{300}=0.23333...$

Rounding to 2 decimal places, he earns around $0.23 per postcard.