3. Campus Painters offers house-painting services by hiring college students to

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3. Campus Painters offers house-painting services by hiring college students to paint during their breaks between semesters. John started the business when he was in college and now he owns and manages the small service-oriented business by providing price quotes, hiring student painters, purchasing supplies, and advertising their services. He currently employs 12 painters and pays them $9.50 per hour for painting and “prep-work” (scraping old paint, caulking, cleaning and removing bugs from the areas that are to be painted).

In order to be profitable, John has learned to provide superior service to his customers, including free price quotes. He builds in his profit-margin of 25% to all quotes by first computing his total costs, then adding 25% of that number to determine how much to charge the customer. Using his knowledge of the expenses for labor, supplies, and equipment, he has developed the following information:

- 1 gallon of paint will cover approximately 400 square feet
- For every 2 gallons of paint for a wall, you need 1 gallon of paint for the trim
- John has a deal with the local paint store and can get any paint he wants for $25 per gallon
[Note: John cannot purchase ½ a gallon of paint.]
- Every job requires 5 tubes of caulk ($2.50 each) and 5 clean paint brushes ($5 each).
- John finds that a painter can apply a gallon of paint in about 8 hours.

a. (5 points) Martin just finished working on a job in which he spent 7 hours on Monday doing prep-work and 8.5 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday painting. How much money does John owe him?
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(a) John is the painting work organizer and Martin is a worker under him. purchasing of gallons of paint is the job of John but not Martin. for the prework or the paint work, there is no difference in the payment in workers point of view. so, on Monday 7 hours, Tuesday 8.5 and Wednesday 8.5 hours of work is performed. that means the usual time of 8 hours a day on the average is done. per each hour, if Martin is to be paid $ 9.5, he has to be paid $ 9.5 * (27 hours) = $ 256.5

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