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.

Answer 1

We can set up the proportion as follows:

$20 per hour is equivalent to 1 hour.
Therefore, the proportion is:

$\frac{x \text{ dollars}}{80 \text{ dollars}} = \frac{1 \text{ hour}}{x \text{ hours}}$

This can be written in fractional notation as:

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