You wash dishes for a chemistry laboratory to make extra money for laundry. You earn 12 dollars/hour, and each shift lasts 75 minutes. Your laundry requires 12 quarters/load. How many loads of laundry will each shift pay for if the cost per load rises to 16 quarters?

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Yadira Cisneros

Chemistry

18 October, 13:19

You wash dishes for a chemistry laboratory to make extra money for laundry. You earn 12 dollars/hour, and each shift lasts 75 minutes. Your laundry requires 12 quarters/load. How many loads of laundry will each shift pay for if the cost per load rises to 16 quarters?

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Elmo · Answer 1

You calculate the amount of loads of laundry as follows:

((6 x 0.25) / load) x 10 loads = 15.00 total cost required for laundry

(6.00 / 60 min) x (75 min/shift) = 7.50 cost / shift

15.00 / (7.50 / shift) = 2 loads of laundry

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