What is her regular hourly pay?

Question

sonya who is paid time and a half for hours worked excess of 40 hours had gross weekly wages of $800 for 56 hours worked. what is her regular hourly rate?

 

Answer 1

If Sonya is paid x per hour, then she would get 1.5x per overtime hour.  56 total hours - 40 hours = 16 overtime hours.  So the equation for her total wages would be:

 

40x + 16(1.5x) = 800

 

40x + 24x = 800

 

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