Travel Time Each Way | Price of a Skirt |
(Minutes) | (Dollars per skirt) |
Local Department Store |
15 |
102 |
Across Town |
30 |
85 |
Neighboring City |
60 |
76 |
Juanita makes $42 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her skirt, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling.