You and your sister decide to combine your weekly overtime earnings to buy a birthday gift for another mother. Your overtime rate is $18 per hour and your sisters overtime rate is $24 per hour. The total amount earned for the gift was$288. If you worked two more hours of overtime than our sister. How many overtime hours did each of you work?

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ikram002p · Answer

so
if ur  sis over time hour = x
then ur over time hour =x+2

18 (x+2)+ 24 x= 288
18x+36+24x=288
42 x=252
x=6
so total hour is 
x+(x+2)=6+8=14

ikram002p · Answer

got it nw ?