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.(

Answer 1

To represent the situation using a proportion, we can set up the relationship between the hourly wage, the total earnings, and the number of hours worked.

The company pays $20 per hour, and we want to find out how many hours (x) are needed to make $80.

The proportion can be expressed as follows:

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

In this proportion:

• The left side represents the pay rate ($20 per hour).
• The right side represents the total amount earned ($80) over the number of hours worked (x).

Now you have the proportion that relates the pay rate to the total earnings through the unknown number of hours worked.