Fred works for $8.75 per hour. His regular hours are 40 hours per week and he gets time and a half for overtime. One week he works 47.5 hours. He wants to calculate his pay.

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Stephen Fernandez

14 October, 21:28

Fred works for $8.75 per hour. His regular hours are 40 hours per week and he gets time and a half for overtime. One week he works 47.5 hours. He wants to calculate his pay.

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Bronson Cooley · Answer 1

For the first 40 hours, he gets 8.75/hour, so 40*8.75 = 350. For the last 7.5 hours, he gets (8.75*1.5) / hour. 8.75*1.5 = 13.125/hour, or 13.13/hour. Then do 13.13/hour * 7.5 hours = 98.48. Now add together 350 and 98.48. That equals $448.48 total for the week