Joe earns $9 per hour. he worked x hours on both wednesday and friday, and 8 hours on both tuesday and saturday. write an expression to represent how much joe earned. justify your answer.

To find the total amount earned, you need to multiply the number of hours worked by the pay rate. Joe worked x hours for 2 days. That’s 2x hours. He worked 8 hours for 2 days. That’s 8(2), or 16 hours. The total number of hours he worked is 2x + 16. He gets paid $9/hour, so an expression for the total amount earned is 9(2x + 16), or 18x + 144.