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a person mailing postcards earns a fixed amount for each postcard he mails yesterday his hourly wage was $14 an hour if he worked 5 hours yesterday and mailed 300 postcards how much does he earn for each postcard mailed? show you work

User Karlgrz
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Since he worked for 5 hours on a $14/hour hourly waged, we have the following numerator


(\$14*5)

In those 5 hours, he mailed 300 postcards which means that he earns for each postcard mailed at


(\$14*5)/(300)=0.23333...

Rounding to 2 decimal places, he earns around $0.23 per postcard.

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