Question

A company earns $7 for every book sold. The company can sell 200 books in 2 hours. At this rate, how much money would the company earn in 8 hours of selling books?

Answer 1

The company earns $5,600 per 8 hours of book selling

Explanation:

Step 1

Find how much books the company sells in 8 hours of selling books

To find this, we see that 2 hours = 200 books. Also, 8/2=4. That means that if we multiply 200 by 4, then we will get our total amount of books sold in 8 hours.

200x4=800

800 books sold in 8 hours

Step 2

Find how much money does 800 books equal to get FINAL ANSWER

To find this, we need to know the price of 1 book, the price of one book is 7$, that means that if we do 7$x800books, then we get our FINAL ANSWER

7x800=$5,600

Hence, the company earns $5,600 for sellings books for 8 hours.

Answer 2

$5,600

Explanation:

1. divide 200 by 2 (this gives you the rate for 1 hour of book sales)

2. multiply the answer by 8 hours

3. multiply your answer (800) by $7

4. You solved it! $5,600 is how much money a company would earn if they sold books for 8 hours.