Question

Gloria earns 1.5 times her normal hourly pay for each hour that she works over 40 hours in a week. Her normal pay is $9.70 per hour. Last week Gloria earned $489.85. How many hours did she work last week?

Answer 1

"for each hour that she works over 40hrs in a week" key words "for each hour" in that section of the sentence. so we take 489.85 divide that by 9.7 = 50 and then we divide 489.85 by 5 so that we can get 1/5 of 50, then we take 9.7 times 1.5 = 14.55 and divide that by 97.97 

489.85/5 = 97.97/14.55 = 6.73 + 40hrs = 46.73hrs 

Not sure why it's a decimal.. but I'm 100% sure that's how you solve it