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

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

801=20x
80 over 1 is equal to 20 over x

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

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

Answer 1

To find how long an employee must work to make $80 when paid $20 per hour, you can set up the following proportion:

Let \( x \) be the number of hours worked. The total amount earned ($80) is equal to the hourly wage ($20) multiplied by the number of hours worked \( x \). This gives us:

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

So, the correct response using fractional notation is:

20 over 1 is equal to 80 over x.