Question

A supervisor must split 60 hours of overtime between five people. One employee must be assigned twice the number of hours as each of the other four employees. How many hours of overtime will be assigned to each employee?

Answer 1

4 people do 10 hours and one person does 20 hours

Solution:

Given that,

A supervisor must split 60 hours of overtime between five people

One employee must be assigned twice the number of hours as each of the other four employees

Let  "x" be the number of hours overtime per person.

One person does 2x hours of overtime

Which means,

(number of hours overtime per person)(6 person) = 60 hours

6x = 60

x = 10

Thus, 4 people do 10 hours and one person does 20 hours