Real-Life Math
A copyright coordinator has to spend part of the day filing, part
of the day researching and part of the day contacting owners of copyright
material.
At some point in the day, they might also have to spend some
time doing math.
"Occasionally, I will be required to compile marketing
or sales figures for legal matters or work with the businesspeople to come
up with an appropriate fee for permissions," says Shari Townsend.
She is a permissions coordinator.
You get a phone call from a lawyer
who is working on a very important case. He is in dire need of 4 examples
of similar cases, all from 1987.
You take the information from him
and after some searching find the cases. The first case is 26 pages long;
the second, 17; third, 11; and the fourth is 32.
You photocopy each
case. In total -- researching and photocopying -- it takes 4.5 hours of your
time.
Calculate a fee based on the following information:
Hourly
wage: $25
Material: paper: 4 cents per sheet
Photocopier ink: the
cartridge holds $200 worth of ink. Each printed sheet uses 0.02 percent of
the cartridge.