A plumber charges a $70 flat rate for all home repairs. His hourly rate is $15 per half hour. How much would a 2 hour and 26 min plumbing bill cost?
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The plumber’s 2 hour and 26 min plumbing bill cost is $73What is the plumber’s per minute rate?The plumber’s per minute rate is the per half-hour rate divided by 30 minutes since the plumber charges $15 for every 30-minute jobper-minute rate=$15/30per-minute rate=$0.50Now, let us convert 2hours and 26 minutes to minutes, in other words, every 1 hour is 60 minutes, the two hours equal 120 minutes plus the 26 minutes gives a total of 146 minutesTotal minutes=120 min+26 mintotal minutes=146 minutesTotal plumbing bill cost for 146 minutes is $0.50, the per-minute rate multiplied by the number of minutes the plumber needs to work in this case2 hour and 26 min plumbing bill cost=146*$0.502 hour and 26 min plumbing bill cost=$73Find out more about hourly rate on:https://brainly.com/question/4468523#SPJ1