Answer: $326.625
Step-by-step explanation:
The infromation that we have is:
Payment per hour: p = $9.75 (I will identify the payment per hour as "p").
He worls from 8:00 am until 3 pm from monday through thursday, this means that he works 7 hours on those days. But since he takes a half hour lunch break, we take half an hour from the 7 hours:
Each from monday trough thursday that he works, he does it for 6.5 hours.
Thus, the total amount of hours for this four days of the week is:
On Friday he works from 8:00 am to 4:00pm, that is 8 hours, as in the previus days, we substract half hour for his break:
So the total amount of hours that he works in the week is the sum of the 26 hours that he works from monday through thursday, plus the 7.5 hours that he works on friday:
h represents the amount of hours that he works in a week.
His total pay for the week "T" is:
The product between the number of hours and the payment per hour:
Answer: $326.625