A worker's total earnings for one day is $100. He received a $20 fixed payment and consumes 14 hours of leisure. What is the hourly wage rate? Show solutions.
Let be the worker's earnings, be the fixed pay and be the time consumed for leisure. Also, let be the hourly wage. The relationship between earnings and leisure is given by the equation, .
We are given that, and we can write the equation as, . Which we can also write as, . To determine the hourly wage rate, we solve for in equation above.
So,
Therefore, the hourly wage rate .
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