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Answer:
$1,349.40
Step-by-step explanation:
For her 48-40 = 8 hours of overtime, Sarah earns straight-time pay for 1.5×8 = 12 hours. For her 48-hour week, she is paid her regular hourly rate for 40+12 = 52 hours.
(52 h)($25.95/h) = $1349.40
Sarah's gross pay for a 48-hour week is $1,349.40.
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Additional comment
The associative properties of multiplication and addition mean there are numerous ways to figure pay when overtime is involved.
The usual calculation is ...
(regular hours)×(regular pay) + (overtime hours)×(overtime pay)
This can be rearranged to ...
= (tot hours)×(reg pay + 1/2 reg pay) -(reg hours)×(1/2 reg pay)
That is, the computation can be a single multiply followed by a subtract. Here 1.5×reg pay = $38.925/h, and (reg hours)×(1/2 reg pay) = $519. So, the pay computation could be ...
(48 h)×($38.925/h) -$519 = $1868.40 -519 = $1349.40
