In order to save up for the down payment on his car, a student starts a part-tim
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Question
In order to save up for the down payment on his car, a student starts a part-time job at a fast-food restaurant. His job is to prepare sandwiches. There is one main requirement for keeping the job – he has to prepare at least 12 sandwiches in 30 minutes. The job pays him the minimum wage of $8.38 per hour. He works 4 days a week and gets paid once every 2 weeks. The down payment is $2500. Calculate how many sandwiches the student has to wrap in order to make the down payment. Show all your work as conversion factors and use dimensional analysis to check if your work is correct.
Explanation / Answer
I don’t know how this is chemistry question. But hey…Student has to prepare at least 12 sandwiches in 30 min. For which he will be paid $8.38/hour.
Means, he will be paid 8.38 * 2 = $16.76/60 min/24 sandwiches.
Now, he has to earn $2500.
Let us calculate earnings from one sandwich = $16.76/24 = $0.698
So for $2500 he has to wrap $2500* 0.698 = 1745.8 = 1746 sandwiches.