Laura works at Pizza-getti. Last month she received an average tip of $8 from her 75 tables. She gets paid $5.25 an hour and worked 150 hours last month. How much was her gross pay for the month

Answer 1

Gross pay is the amount of pay before any deductions, so it's a simple matter of adding the total tips for the month and her wages for the month. In this case, if she got 75 tables over the month and got $8 in tips for them, she would earn $8 * 75 = $600. For her wages, she'd earn 150 * $5.25 = $787.50. Add them together, and you'd get $1,387.50.

Answer 2

There's 2 parts to this problem. First, her tips are calculated by multiply the $8 tips by the 75 tables. That equals $600

Then her monthly salary part is her hourly pay of 5.25 times the 150 hours she worked. So in salary alone, Laura earned $787.50 that month.

Since gross pay means before taxes, add the 600 tips to the 787.50 salary.

Gross Pay: $1387.50