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You and your sister decide to combine your weekly overtime earnings to buy a birthday gift for your mother. Your overtime rate is $18 per hour and your sister's overtime rate is $24 per hour. The total amount earned for the gift was $288. If you worked two more hours of overtime than your sister, how many overtime hours did each of your work?
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\n" ); document.write( "let sister work x overtime hours
\n" ); document.write( "I work x+2 overtime hours
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\n" ); document.write( "sister's rate /h= 24
\n" ); document.write( "my overtime rate = 18
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\n" ); document.write( "24x+18(x+2)=288
\n" ); document.write( "24x+18x+36=288
\n" ); document.write( "42x=288-36
\n" ); document.write( "42x=252
\n" ); document.write( "/42
\n" ); document.write( "x= 6 hours overtime by sister
\n" ); document.write( "8 hours overtime by me.
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\n" ); document.write( "6*24+18*8=288
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