Question

Martha earns $16.50 an hour for a regular 40 hour week. He overtime payo is 1.5 times her regular hourly rate. This past week Martha earned $948.75 in total pay. Approximately, how many hours of overtime did she work this past week? (Round you answer to the nearest hour. Just put the number, do not include the word hour) *​

Answer 1

12

Explanation:

Regular work week is 40 hours; at $16.50 per hour, that comes to $660.

Subtracting $660 from the toal $948.75 yields $288.75, which represents her pay at the overtime rate of (1.5)($16.50/hr), or $24.75/hour

Dividing $288.75 by this overtime rate of $24.75/hr yields 11.666 ...

We conclude that she worked approximately 12 hours overtime to end up

with $948.75 total pay.