37.( I'm a parent and been out of school way too long. I'm having a hard time helping my daughter with is. I don't like to ask for help but would some please explain it to me so I can help her. A painter spends 590 minutes painting a house one day. The painter makes $33.25 per hour.
a. Use mixed numbers to write the time in hours. Show your work.
b. Estimate the amount the painter is paid. Explain how you found your estimate.

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37.( I'm a parent and been out of school way too long. I'm having a hard time helping my daughter with is. I don't like to ask for help but would some please explain it to me so I can help her.    A painter spends 590 minutes painting a house one day. The painter makes $33.25 per hour.
a. Use mixed numbers to write the time in hours. Show your work.
b. Estimate the amount the painter is paid. Explain how you found your estimate.

hero · Answer

33 and 1/4 dollars per hour

590/60 * 33.25 = pay

hero · Answer

(590/60)*33.25 = pay

9.63 * 33.25 = 326.95

Almost 327 dollars in pay

asnaseer · Answer

to convert 590 minutes to hours, 1st divide it by 60 and throw away any remainders
this gives us 9 hours
next convert the 9 hours back into minutes by multiplying it by 60, so 9 hours = 9 * 60 = 540 minutes
then take this away from the orignal time in minutes (590) to get 590 - 540 = 50 minutes
so painters time is 9 hours and 50 minutes

to estimate how much he got paid, we need to multiply the numbers of hours he worked by his hourly rate. he worked 9 hours and 50 minutes, which is "roughly" 10 hours.
so we can estimate his cost as 10 * 33.25 = $332.5

anonymous · Answer

Thank you all for helping an ol' mom out that is not the greatest with this math...

asnaseer · Answer

glad to help :-)