Question

A local store owner pays her empolyees time-and-a-half for overtime. That means if an employee works more than 40 hours per week, the store will pay him 1.5 times his regular hourly wage of $6.50. A) write a piecewise function that illustrates an employee's weekly pay, W, as a function of the number of hours, h, that employee works.

Answer 1

W = 40(6.5) + (h-40)(1.5)(6.5)   
so pay = 40 hours * 6.5 (regular pay) + total hours - regular time (to get the number of overtime hours) times 1.5 times the regular pay
then simplify that:
W= 260 + 9.25(h-40)