Jordan saved 4/5 of the amount he needs to buy a $80 video game. If he earns $7.75 per hour by working at a pizza shop, how many hours does he need to work to save the rest of the money for the video game? round to the nearest hour

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Jordon Hull

28 March, 23:04

Jordan saved 4/5 of the amount he needs to buy a $80 video game. If he earns $7.75 per hour by working at a pizza shop, how many hours does he need to work to save the rest of the money for the video game? round to the nearest hour

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Lauren Cooper · Answer 1

Amount of money saved by Jordon for the video game = (4/5) * 80

= 4 * 16 dollars

= 64 dollars

So

The amount of money that

Jordan needs to earn more for buying the video game = (80 - 64) dollars

= 16 dollars

Amount earned by Jordan per hour working at a pizza shop = $7.75

Let us assume the number of hours Jordan needs to work to save the rest of the money for the video game = x

Then

7.75x = 16

x = 16/7.75

= 2.06 hours

So it can be said that Jordan has to work 3 hours to save the rest of the money for the video game. If Jordan works 2 hours then he will be short of the required amount. If Jordan works for 3 hours he will have some excess amount in his hand after saving for the video game.