Question

When Hayden travels for work, he earns a higher hourly rate of $30. He is paid for 40 hours per week and for overtime hours worked on a weekend. One pay period after traveling to California for 2 weeks, he had a net pay of $2,610 before taxes. How many hours did Hayden work on the weekends?

Answer 1

Hayden work 7 hours on the weekends.

Explanation:

Given:

When Hayden travels for work, he earns a higher hourly rate of $30. He is paid for 40 hours per week and for overtime hours worked on a weekend. One pay period after traveling to California for 2 weeks, he had a net pay of $2,610 before taxes.

Now, to find the hours Hayden work on the weekends.

Hourly rate = $30.

Hours work per week = 40.

Now, to get the salary of Hayden for working 40 hours in 2 weeks:

Hours work per week × hourly rate × 2

=
`40* 30* 2`

`=\$2400.`

After traveling to California net pay of Hayden for 2 weeks = $2,610.

As, in 1 week there are 7 days.

So, in 2 weeks there are 14 days.

Thus, in 14 days he had a net pay of $2,610.

In a week there are 2 weekends.

And, in 2 weeks there are 4 weekends.

Now, after reducing the 4 days of weekends the salary of Hayden is $2400.

So, to get the pay of hayden for the weekends we subtract salary of Hayden after reducing the 4 days of weekends from the Hayden's net pay:

`\$2,610-\$2,400\\\\=\$210.`

Hayden's pay for the weekends = $210.

Now, to get the hours Hayden work on weekends we divide Hayden's pay for the weekends by hourly rate :

`210/ 30\\\\=7\ hours.`

Therefore, Hayden work 7 hours on the weekends.