Kayla works at a grocery store yesterday she worked eight hours and earned $136 what’s the minimum number of hours she will need to work in order to purchase a new picket ball paddle that cost $175

Question

Nine hours
10 hours
11 hours
12 hours

Answer 1

To find out how many hours Kayla needs to work in order to purchase the pickleball paddle that costs $175, we first need to determine her hourly wage.

She earned $136 for 8 hours of work.

To find her hourly wage, we can use the following formula:

\[ \text{Hourly wage} = \frac{\text{Total earnings}}{\text{Total hours worked}} = \frac{136}{8} = 17 \]

Kayla earns $17 per hour.

Next, we need to find out how many hours she needs to work to earn $175:

\[ \text{Hours needed} = \frac{\text{Cost of paddle}}{\text{Hourly wage}} = \frac{175}{17} \approx 10.29 \]

Since Kayla can only work whole hours, we round up to the nearest whole hour, which means she will need to work 11 hours.

Thus, the minimum number of hours Kayla will need to work to purchase the paddle is 11 hours.