SOLUTION: your summer job pays $8 per hour. you get $12 per hour for overtime(anything over 40 hours per week). How many hours must you work in one week to earn $404?

SOLUTION: your summer job pays $8 per hour. you get $12 per hour for overtime(anything over 40 hours per week). How many hours must you work in one week to earn $404?

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Question 742026: your summer job pays $8 per hour. you get $12 per hour for overtime(anything over 40 hours per week). How many hours must you work in one week to earn $404?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
no of extra hours be x
earning from extra hours = 12x
40 hours /week
8*40 = 320 /week
normal wages + overtime wages = 404
404=320+12x
404-320=12x
84=12x
7 hours extra
so total hours = 40 +7

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