Question

Exit Which answer choice correctly identifies the extraneous information in the word problem below? Makita helped her 4 younger brothers with their homework. Her aunt was so impressed with the way Makita helped her brothers and offered to pay Makita $10.00 an hour to help her nephew with his homework. If Makita helps her nephew with his homework for 2 hours on Wednesday and 1 hour on Thursday, how much money did she earn? A. Makita helped her nephew with his homework for a total of 3 hours. B. How much money did she earn? C. Makita helped her 4 younger brothers with their homework. D. Makita's aunt is paying $10.00 an hour.

Answer 1

C. Makita helped her 4 younger brothers with their homework.

Explanation:

Extraneous information is the information which is not needed to solve the question. In this Makita helped 4 brothers is extraneous information because it does not solve the question asked. The question asked is how much did she earn? For this we need to know that she worked a total of 3 hours. Her aunt paid her $ 10.00 per hour. But it has nothing to do with her brothers.

And ofcourse the question asked how much did she earn cannot be extraneous information itself.

Option C shows the extraneous information.

Option A, B and D are required in the question to answer.