SOLUTION: Helen earns $7.50 an hour at her job, but if she works more than 35 hours in a week she is paid 1.5 times her regular salary for the overtime hours worked. One week her gross pay w

Question 321164: Helen earns $7.50 an hour at her job, but if she works more than 35 hours in a week she is paid 1.5 times her regular salary for the overtime hours worked. One week her gross pay was $352.50. How many overtime hours did she work that week?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Helen earns $7.50 an hour at her job, but if she works more than 35 hours in a week she is paid 1.5 times her regular salary for the overtime hours worked. One week her gross pay was $352.50. How many overtime hours did she work that week?
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Solve:
Let "x" be # of hours over 35.
(x)(1.5)(7.50) = 352.50 - 35*7.50
11.25x = 90
x = 8 hrs of overtime.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Helen earns $7.50 an hour at her job, but if she works more than 35 hours in a week she is paid 1.5 times her regular salary for the overtime hours worked. One week her gross pay was $352.50. How many overtime hours did she work that week?
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If she works 35 hours she gets 35*7.50 = $ 262.50
She got $ 352.50 that week.
so she got 352.50-262.50 = $ 90 extra for overtime
She gets 1.5 times for every extra hour
so she gets 7.50*1.50= $11.25 per extra hour
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The extra amount she got was $ 90
so she worked for 90/11.25 extra hours
= 8 hours over time

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