Question

Drey makes $10 an hour plus $15 an hour for every hour of overtime. Overtime hours are any hours more than 40 hours for the week.

Part A: Create an equation that shows the amount of wages earned, W, for working x hours in a week when there is no overtime.

Part B: Create an equation that shows the amount of wages earned, S, for working y hours of overtime. Hint: Remember to include in the equation the amount earned from working 40 hours.

Part C: Drey earned $490 in 1 week. How many hours (regular plus overtime) did he work?

Answer 1

For the answer to the question above, let us solve the first for
Part A. $10 x 40 hours= $400 ($10x = W) X= 40 hours a week

Part b. $10 x 40 hours = $400 + $15 x Y=S ($10x=$400 +$15y=S) Y= number of hours overtime. Since he gets $15 for working more than 40 hours you take the number of hours over time and multiply it by 15.

Part c. Now that he made $490 in 1 week you know that he worked for 40 hours at a rate of $10 an hour. But that's only $400, so we need to figure out 15 times what is equal to 90. 15 times six is equal to 90 which means that Drey worked for 46 hours