Answer:
3 hours
Step-by-step explanation:
If pay is for full quarter hours, then the worker won't get paid for work intervals of less than 15 minutes.
Subtract 7:34 from 11:48: we get 3:14 hours. Because the 14 minutes is less than the 15 minutes of a full quarter hour, the worker won't get paid for those 14 minutes.
So the 'number of hours worked' is 3 hours.
Note that 3:14 would be 3 hours 14 minutes.
