Question

19The employees at a retail store earn $8.75 per hour. They earn 1.5 timestheir hourly wage for every hour they work over 40 hours in a week. If anemployee works 52 hours in a week, how much did that employee earn forthat week? *

Answer 1

$507.50

1) Gathering the data

$8.75 per hour

1.5 x hourly wage extra hour

52 hours

2)

52-40 = 12 extra hours and 40 hours

40 hours > 40 x 8.75 = $350

12 hours over >>> 12 x 1.5 x 8.75 = 157.50

Adding those hours up: 350+157.50 = $507.50