SOLUTION: Tiong Beng worked part time at a fast food restaurant during the school holidays. He was paid the normal hourly rate of $2.80 per hour. Overtime rate is one and a half times the

Question 973003: Tiong Beng worked part time at a fast food restaurant during the school holidays. He was paid the normal hourly rate of $2.80 per hour.
Overtime rate is one and a half times the normal rate. He received $173.60 for 54 hours of work. How many hours did he work overtime?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The necessary information is 54 hours of work and a typically assumed 40 hours for the full-time limit. The difference is 14 hours, for the overtime.

Check through the whole description more carefully:

, using x hours for eXtra time, as overtime, and .

, using the time summation equation

, overtime hours, according to the values given in the description.
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