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An employee earns $7.00 an hour for the first 35 hours worked in a week and $10.50 for any hours over 35. One week's paycheck (before deductions) was for $308.00. How many hours did the employee work?

*write an equation and solve

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$308.00-( 7.00*35)+(10.50\a) $308.00-$245.00=$63.00 $63.00/$10.50=6 hours A=6
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