SOLUTION: Jeane worked 45 hours one week and earned a $380.00 paycheck. She earns time and a half (1.5 times her regular hourly wage) for the number of hours she works in excess of 40. What

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Question 722040: Jeane worked 45 hours one week and earned a $380.00 paycheck. She earns time and a half (1.5 times her regular hourly wage) for the number of hours she works in excess of 40. What is Jeane's regular hourly wage?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = her regular hourly wage
= her overtime hourly wage
given:




Her hourly wage is $8/hr

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