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Okay Math people Another drill for you Here we go

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Well emery hired the law firm earn dough and schmooze

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to create contracts for his small business The firm charges

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him a flat fee of one hundred eighty eight dollars

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and forty three cents for photocopying and printing paper work

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eight hundred dollars an hour of research And for five

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hundred dollars an hour spent writing the contract what is

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the ratio of photocopying and printing charges to the sum

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of the two per our rates Important shmoop for similar

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to note here people One might think that we're just

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making up hilariously huge loitering numbers for the sole purpose

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of crafting entertaining word problems But sadly we're not At

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least if you're a customer it's good news If you're

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going to be a lawyer we're given the total cost

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of photocopying Imprinting in the total cost of the hourly

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charges is eight hundred bucks plus five hundred bucks at

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thirteen hundred Right there The ratio of one hundred eighty

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forty three to thirteen hundred is written as a fraction

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Looks like that That can kind of simplify a little

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bit to be point one three nine over one There

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that's it It's a point one three nine to one

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and may you pass the bar and then give us 00:01:14.657 --> [endTime] a discount when we need it

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