Question

A company pays their employees $20 per hour. Using fractional notation, write a proportion that represents how long an employee must work to make $80. Use x to represent the unknown number of hours.(1 point)

Answer 1

In word form

Answer 2

$\frac{x}{1}$ = $\frac{80}{20}$

Answer 3

The proportion in word form is:

"An employee must work x hours to make $80, and this is equivalent to working 1 hour to make $20."