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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

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

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that's it It's a point one three nine to one

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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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