Your profit for mowing lawns this week is $24. You are paid $8 per hour and you paid $40 for gas for the lawnmower. How many hours did you work this week?
If you paid $40 that would mean -40 to your total so to make that back you would have to work extra, so in total you made $24+$40 because you had to make that money back, so $64, then you just divide by 8, $64 divided by 8 = 8 you worked 8 hours.
8x3 is 24 but then you have to pay money for gas so you will work more which is 8x5 because 8x5 is 40 so 40+24 is 64 which means you worked 8 hours that week
