1 The average teacher in the United States earns$45,000 a year.
LeBron James earns$15 million from the Miami Heat.If they each get
paid every two weeks, what will their paychecks look like?
2 How much does a teacher & LeBron James earn every
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Hour
Minute
3 The NBA regular season is 82 games long, and each game
consists of four 12-minute quarters (plus a 15-minute hCalculate
how much LeBron earns each game. Then show how long he has to play
to earn a teachers salary.
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4 In addition to his salary from the Heat, LeBron James also
makes money fromendorsements . For every $1 that hmakes from
basketball, he makes another $2 from Nike, Sprite, etc. Based on
this:
a. If a teacher started work today, how long would it take to
earn what LeBron does in a year?
b. How many teachers would it to earn what LeBron does? (Can you
draw this below??)
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5 Now lets look at what some other people earn in the United
States. Choose three people from the Parade magaarticle, and
calculate how much they earn each day, hour & minute. Then, if
a new car costs $25,000, how long weach person have to work before
they could afford one?
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I n c o m e
Year
Day
Hour
Minute
6 For the three people above, show how much the car costsas a
fraction of their annual income . Based on this, woulyou say that a
$25,000 car costs the same for each person? Explain.
7 All together, the following people earn around $62,600,000 in
total. Try to figure out how much each person maThen look at their
actual salaries. If it were up to you, how much would each person
make?
