Your current wage rate is £W per hour and you work H hours a week. Your free time is therefore 24 × 7 – H= 168 – H hours, or (24 – 8)× 7 – H= 112 – H hours, if you spend 8 hours a day sleeping. Over the years, your wage rate has increased six-fold to £6W. As a result, you have reduced your working hours by a third. Based on this information, read the following statements and select the correct one.

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If your free time including sleeping hours has risen by one-fifth, then you originally worked H= 63 hours a week.

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If you originally worked H= 63 hours, then your free time excluding sleeping hours has increased by 50%.

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Your total income has tripled after the wage rate increase.

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The proportional increase in free time after the wage rise is smaller when sleeping hours are excluded from the free time.

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