{"id":272864,"date":"2025-07-27T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=272864"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:26:54","slug":"two-friends-sophia-and-ruby-took-summer-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/two-friends-sophia-and-ruby-took-summer-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two friends, Sophia and Ruby, took summer jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two friends, Sophia and Ruby, took summer jobs. The equation y = 23.9x represents Ruby&#8217;s earnings in dollars and cents, y, for working z hours. Sophia earned $1098.20 in 38 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find Ruby&#8217;s hourly rate, we can use the equation y=23.9xy = 23.9x, where yy represents earnings in dollars and cents, and xx represents hours worked. This equation means that Ruby earns $23.90 for each hour worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s focus on Sophia. Sophia earned $1098.20 for 38 hours. To find her hourly rate, we divide her total earnings by the number of hours worked: Hourly&nbsp;rate&nbsp;for&nbsp;Sophia=1098.2038=28.9\\text{Hourly rate for Sophia} = \\frac{1098.20}{38} = 28.9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Sophia&#8217;s hourly rate is $28.90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we can compare the two friends&#8217; hourly rates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ruby earns $23.90 per hour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophia earns $28.90 per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophia earns more per hour than Ruby. This could be due to differences in the type of work they did or the nature of their jobs. Ruby&#8217;s hourly rate is lower, but if she worked more hours than Sophia, she might have earned more overall, depending on the total number of hours each worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To summarize, Sophia&#8217;s hourly rate is $28.90, which is higher than Ruby&#8217;s hourly rate of $23.90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two friends, Sophia and Ruby, took summer jobs. The equation y = 23.9x represents Ruby&#8217;s earnings in dollars and cents, y, for working z hours. Sophia earned $1098.20 in 38 hours. The correct answer and explanation is: To find Ruby&#8217;s hourly rate, we can use the equation y=23.9xy = 23.9x, where yy represents earnings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}