SOLUTION: You and your sister decide to combine your weekly overtime earnings to buy a birthday gift for your mother. Your overtime rate is $18 per hour and your sister's overtime rate is $2

Question 356976: You and your sister decide to combine your weekly overtime earnings to buy a birthday gift for your mother. Your overtime rate is $18 per hour and your sister's overtime rate is $24 per hour. The total amount earned for the gift was $288. If you worked two more hours of overtime than your sister, how many overtime hours did each of your work?
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You and your sister decide to combine your weekly overtime earnings to buy a birthday gift for your mother. Your overtime rate is $18 per hour and your sister's overtime rate is $24 per hour. The total amount earned for the gift was $288. If you worked two more hours of overtime than your sister, how many overtime hours did each of your work?
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let sister work x overtime hours
I work x+2 overtime hours
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sister's rate /h= 24
my overtime rate = 18
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24x+18(x+2)=288
24x+18x+36=288
42x=288-36
42x=252
/42
x= 6 hours overtime by sister
8 hours overtime by me.
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6*24+18*8=288
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