Question

An employee earns $7.00 an hour for the first 35 hours worked in a week and $10.50 for any hours over 35. One week's paycheck (before deductions) was for $308.00. How many hours did the employee work?
*write an equation and solve

Answer 1

$308.00-( 7.00*35)+(10.50\a) $308.00-$245.00=$63.00 $63.00/$10.50=6 hours A=6