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Trevor earns $7.80 an our take-home pay and works 20 hours each week to buy a new laptop computer to take to college that cost $780 how many weeks will it take for church to achieve his goal

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It will take him 5 years

7.80 * 20 = 156
780/156 = 5.01 ( So 5)
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he makes 7.80 per hr....and works 20 hrs per week.....so he makes
7.80 * 20 = 156 per week

156x = 780....where x stands for the number of weeks
x = 780/156
x = 5 <== so it will take him 5 weeks to achieve his goal of having enough money to buy the computer
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