Last saturday you worked 6 hours and made 85.80 if 80 percent of your income came from tips what was your hourly wage

Question

 How would you find the hourly wage 

Answer 1

80% of you income was tips

 

so your tips were .8*85.80

 

tips were 68.64

 

subtract the tips from your income

 

85.80 - 68.84 = 17.16

 

so you made 17.16 in hourly wages

 

you worked 6 hours

 

so 6 times your hourly wage gave you 17.16

 

6x=17.16

 

divide both sides by 6

 

x=2.86

 

your hourly wage was $2.86