Hrm 300 Week 6 Hours Case Study

Pham can work as many or as few hours as she wants at the college bookstore for $9 per hour. But due to her hectic schedule, she has just 15 hours per week that she can spend working at either the bookstore or at other potential jobs. One potential job, at a café, will pay her $12 per hour for up to 6 hours per week. She has another job offer at a garage that will pay her $10 an hour for up to 5 hours per week. And she has a potential job at a daycare center that will pay her $8.50 per hour for as many hours as she can work. If her goal is to maximize the amount of money she can make each week, how many hours will she work at the bookstore?

Im going to say 4 Hours due to the fact that it pays her 9 dollars an hour. Pham will clearly choose the books store because as I explained the amount they are paying her is better than the others and as long as it stays at that amount she will choose to work at that location as long as she can. But if another job likes her performance and bump up her pay she would most likely go work there until she meets her time crunch.

This leaves her with 9 hours of work time remaining. Next, she will choose to work at the garage for the full 5 hours because the wage rate here is $10, which again is greater than the bookstore wage rate $9. After this decision she only has 4 hours of work time remaining. She will choose to work these last 4 hours at the bookstore because the bookstore wage rate of $9 exceeds the daycare center wage rate of $8.50.

So to me either way it goes she would probably choose the bookstore because of the many hours it allows her to