SOLUTION: Ann earns 1.5 times her normal hourly pay for each hour that she works over 40 hours a week. Last week she worked 51 hours and earned $378.55. What is her normal hourly pay?

SOLUTION: Ann earns 1.5 times her normal hourly pay for each hour that she works over 40 hours a week. Last week she worked 51 hours and earned $378.55. What is her normal hourly pay?

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Question 1001305: Ann earns 1.5 times her normal hourly pay for each hour that she works over 40 hours a week. Last week she worked 51 hours and earned $378.55. What is her normal hourly pay?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call her rate of hourly pay, x.
Her overtime rate is then (1.5)x.
If she worked 51 hours, 11 were overtime.
Thus we write
40x + 11(1.5x) = 378.55
40x + 16.5x = 378.55
56.5x = 378.55
x = $6.70 per hour
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