I need help writing a piecewise function for this scenario? (Will give medal & fan)

"A local store owner pays her employees 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."

"Write a piecewise function that illustrates an employee's weekly pay, W, as a function of the number of hours, h, that employee works"

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I need help writing a piecewise function for this scenario? (Will give medal & fan)

"A local store owner pays her employees 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."

"Write a piecewise function that illustrates an employee's weekly pay, W, as a function of the number of hours, h, that employee works"

anonymous · Answer

I'm really unfamiliar with piecewise functions, we only went over them ever so briefly months ago.

anonymous · Answer

f(W)= 6.50*40 + (40-h)*9.75

I think this should be the answer.

anonymous · Answer

Seems about right, why is one of the parts (40-h) though?

anonymous · Answer

Sorry, it should be (h-40); where h is the total number of hours and (h-40) illustrates the extra hours put in.

anonymous · Answer

Oh okay (: Makes perfect sense. Thank you!

anonymous · Answer

Anytime :)