Question

you have a summer job that pays time and a half for overtime. that is if you work more than 40 hours per week,your hourly wage for the extra hours is 1.5 times your normal hourly wage is $7. is the slope increasing or decreasing rate of change? What does this mean in the ontext of this sit.?

Answer 1

The graph of pay versus hours will show an increased slope for hours greater than 40. That is because the pay for each of those hours is not $7, it is $10.50.