Question

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Question 3. What is it asking? I don't even get it. Not slightly. How do I even read the grid? @myininaya

Answer 1

Just calculate the hourly wage. It's kind of stupid how they gave a grid as such, they could've just mentioned the numbers regularly, but they had to make it fancy, haha, so like the first option is saying $12.55 basically, does that make sense?

Answer 2

Oh, I see. Why would they even do it like that? It really threw me off.

Answer 3

I have no idea why they would do that.

Answer 4

So if it's asking for the hourly wage, and we know she worked 3 40 hour weeks, it's just

Gross income/hours

1506/120
= 12.55

A.

Answer 5

Yup

Answer 6

The grid is what threw me off.

Answer 7

Haha, no worries, I can see where the confusion can occur, even looking at option D, it's kind of ridiculous how they have it like that.

Answer 8

A cookie recipe calls for 3/4 stick of butter. Valerie has enough of the other ingredients to make 6 batches of cookies. If she has 3 sticks of butter, how many batches of the recipe can she make? (Choose the answer, marked correctly, from one of the grids below.)


Here is how I did it. 3/4 = .75

So if we have 3 sticks that's .75, .75, 7.5, and that leaves .75 left over that we can use. So we can have a total of 4 batches.

That's just from basic intuition. Is there a more mathematical way to represent this?

Answer 9

That's fine, you're absolutely right!

Answer 10

I know I am right. I am awesome.