SOLUTION: Soledad regular pay is $7.50 per hour.if she works more than 4o hours in a week , she receives 1.5 times her regular pay rate for each additional hour. how many hours would soledad

Question 575230: Soledad regular pay is $7.50 per hour.if she works more than 4o hours in a week , she receives 1.5 times her regular pay rate for each additional hour. how many hours would soledad have to work in one week to earn a total of $345
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Soledad regular pay is $7.50 per hour.if she works more than 4o hours in a week , she receives 1.5 times her regular pay rate for each additional hour. how many hours would soledad have to work in one week to earn a total of $345
sol:
if she worked for 40 hours she would have got $300
but she has got $45 extra ..
so she have worked more than 40 hours .
we should calculate how many extra hours she worked equating all this.
for extra hours ,the pay have to be calculated as 1.5*(7.50 * x)
where x is the extra hours she worked.
salary for 40 hours + 1.5*(7.50 * x) = 345
300 + 1.5*(7.50 * x) = 345
solving for x we get 4 hours.
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