Certainly! Let's determine the labor cost for the job, given that the total job cost was [tex]$28,244.66 and 41% of it was attributed to labor.
1. Identify the total job cost:
The total cost for the job is $[/tex]28,244.66.
2. Determine the percentage of the job that was labor:
The percentage of the job attributed to labor is 41%.
3. Convert the percentage to decimal form:
To work with the percentage in calculations, we convert it to a decimal. 41% as a decimal is 0.41.
4. Calculate the actual labor cost:
Multiply the total job cost by the decimal form of the labor percentage:
[tex]\[
\text{Labor Cost} = \text{Total Job Cost} \times \text{Labor Percentage}
\][/tex]
Substitute the values into the equation:
[tex]\[
\text{Labor Cost} = 28,244.66 \times 0.41
\][/tex]
5. Perform the multiplication:
By multiplying these numbers, we get:
[tex]\[
28,244.66 \times 0.41 = 11,580.3106
\][/tex]
Therefore, the actual labor cost to the customer was [tex]$11,580.31.
This means that out of the total job cost of $[/tex]28,244.66, the labor cost made up approximately $11,580.31 (rounded to the nearest cent).
