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

Question

to represent the unknown number of hours.(1 point)
Responses

201=80x
20 over 1 is equal to 80 over x

20x=180
20 over x is equal to 1 over 80

120=80x
1 over 20 is equal to 80 over x

801=20x

Answer 1

To represent how long an employee must work to make $80 at a rate of $20 per hour, we can set up a proportion using fractional notation. The appropriate proportion can be formed as follows:

\[ \frac{20}{1} = \frac{80}{x} \]

This means that for every $20 earned, it corresponds to 1 hour worked, and for $80 earned, it corresponds to \(x\) hours worked.

So the correct response is:

20 over 1 is equal to 80 over x.