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An employee makes an hourly rate plus any tips they earn. This tip employee made a total of $400 by working 28 hours last week. If $253 of their total earnings was their tips, what is their hourly rate of pay?

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A is the answer on Edgen.

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User Duli
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To find the answer we must remove the tips amount from the total amount, and then divide what remains by the numbers of hours he worked. So we have: HourlyRate = (400 - 253) / 28 <=> HourlyRate = 147/28 <=> HourlyRate = $5.25
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