Business Mathematics Brief 12th Edition by Stanley Salzman ,Gary Clendenen, Charles Miller

Exercise 256

CALCULATING GROSS EARNINGS Find the gross pay for each employee at the given rate.
Round to the nearest cent. (See Examples.)
36.6 hours at $9.85 per hour _______________________
Multiplying Two Decimal Numbers
Find the gross pay of a SUBWAY employee working 31.5 hours at a rate of $8.65 per hour.
SOLUTION
CASE IN POINT Find gross pay by multiplying the number of hours worked by the pay per hour.

This worker's gross pay, rounded to the nearest cent, is $272.48.
Applying Decimal Multiplication
Assume the cost of each 30-second television ad at the 2013 Super Bowl game was $2.7 million. If there were 60 advertising spots of 30 seconds during the game, find the total amount charged for advertising.
SOLUTION
Find the total amount charged for advertising during the 2013 Super Bowl by multiplying the number of 30-second advertising spots during the game by the charge for each advertisement.

The total amount charged for advertising was $162 million ($162,000,000).