Remember the designer who must make 100 jackets? Well, her materials have arrived. Now the jackets can be sewn. Most designers don’t do this work themselves. They hire tailors to help them. A tailor is a person who makes or repairs clothing.
How much will it cost to hire tailors? The designer uses math to find out. Jackets by the Hour The store owner wants all 100 jackets to be completed in
one week. How many people must the designer hire to make them? The designer knows it takes 4 hours to sew one jacket. A regular workday is 8 hours long. So one person can sew 2 jackets per day. There are 5 days in the workweek. So she multiplies the number of days by the number of jackets a person can make in one day.
