You are planning to hire a full-time electrician who will work 40 hours per week. If you plan on giving this new hire three week

Option b) 1960 is the total hours worked by the electrician.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is stated that a full-time electrician will put in 40 hours weekly.

Hence, we should determine the total hours he could work in a year, which consists of twelve months.

Thus, a year consists of 365 days.

To find the number of weeks in these twelve months:

Number of weeks = Total days in a year / 7 days of the week

⇒ 365 / 7

⇒ 52.14 (approximately 52 weeks)

It translates to 52 weeks within twelve months.

Out of these 52 weeks, three weeks are designated for vacation.

The total weeks the electrician will work = 52 weeks - 3 weeks

⇒ 49 weeks.

Thus, the electrician worked for 49 weeks.

To find his total worked hours = 49 weeks × 40 hours

⇒ 1960 hours.

So, the total hours the electrician worked amounts to 1960 hours, which corresponds to option b).