Maggie has a job working in an office for $ 10 an hour and another job driving a tractor for $ 12 an hour.

Question

Maggie has a job working in an office for $ 10 an hour and another job driving a tractor for $ 12 an hour. One week she works in the office twice as long as she drives the tractor. Her total income for that week is $ 416 . How many hours did she spend at each job?

 

_____ hrs working at office.

 

_____ hrs driving a tractor.

 

How to solve this?

Answer 1

26 hours in the office at $10 per hour $260.00

13 hours in the truck at $12 per hour $156.00

Total 39 hours for $416.00