Question

Julian has worked for a beverage company for the last five years. He currently earns $12.00 an hour and $16.00 an hour overtime for any additional hours he works past his eight hour workday. On his busiest day, he earned $128.00. How much overtime did he work? Let h = the number of overtime hours.

Answer 1

For the first 8 hours he makes $12.00 per hour.

$12.00 * 8 = $96.00

Now you have $128.00 = 16.00h + $96.00

Subtract 96 from each side:

32 = 16h

Divide both sides by 16:

h = 2

He worked 2 hours of overtime.