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ACT Aspire Math: Comparing Ratios of Various Legal Fees 0 Views
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Emery hired the law firm Erndough and Shmooz to create contracts for his small business. The firm charges him a flat rate of $180.43 for photocopying and printing paperwork, $800.00 per hour of research, and $500.00 per hour spent writing the contracts.
What is the ratio of the charge for photocopying and printing paperwork to the sum of the two per hour rates?
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Math people Another drill for you Here we go
- 00:06
Well emery hired the law firm earn dough and schmooze
- 00:10
to create contracts for his small business The firm charges
- 00:13
him a flat fee of one hundred eighty eight dollars
- 00:15
and forty three cents for photocopying and printing paper work
Full Transcript
- 00:18
eight hundred dollars an hour of research And for five
- 00:21
hundred dollars an hour spent writing the contract what is
- 00:24
the ratio of photocopying and printing charges to the sum
- 00:29
of the two per our rates Important shmoop for similar
- 00:37
to note here people One might think that we're just
- 00:40
making up hilariously huge loitering numbers for the sole purpose
- 00:43
of crafting entertaining word problems But sadly we're not At
- 00:47
least if you're a customer it's good news If you're
- 00:49
going to be a lawyer we're given the total cost
- 00:51
of photocopying Imprinting in the total cost of the hourly
- 00:53
charges is eight hundred bucks plus five hundred bucks at
- 00:56
thirteen hundred Right there The ratio of one hundred eighty
- 00:59
forty three to thirteen hundred is written as a fraction
- 01:02
Looks like that That can kind of simplify a little
- 01:05
bit to be point one three nine over one There
- 01:09
that's it It's a point one three nine to one
- 01:12
and may you pass the bar and then give us 00:01:14.657 --> [endTime] a discount when we need it
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