How many payroll hours has Joan used

Question

Joan gets allocated $2089.85 for payroll each week, which equals to 152 hours for scheduling. So far, Joan is at 77.7% of her payroll for the week, how many hours has Joan used up?

Answer 1

Let's begin by finding out how much is paid for each hour by dividing the total by 152 hours.

$2089.85 / 152 = $13.75.

Now we need to find what 77.7% of $2089.85 by multiplying $2089.85 by .777. This gives us $1623.81.

Now that we have the amount, we need to find how many hours Joan used up. We can do this by dividing $1623.81 by the $13.75 per hour. $1623.81/ $13.75 = 118 hours.