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i need help with a question. Will give medal

Answer 1

What is the question?

Answer 2

Andrew makes $6 an hour plus $9 an hour for every hour of overtime. Overtime hours are any hours more than 40 hours for the week.

Part A: Create an equation that shows the amount of wages earned, W, for working x hours in a week when there is no overtime. (3 points)

Part B: Create an equation that shows the amount of wages earned, S, for working y hours of overtime. Hint: Remember to include in the equation the amount earned from working 40 hours. (3 points)

Part C: Andrew earned $330 in 1 week. How many hours (regular plus overtime) did he work? (4 points)

Answer 3

im stuck on it and need a lot of help

Answer 4

Okay so lets work on part A.
"Create an equation that shows the amount of wages earned, W, for working x hours in a week when there is no overtime. "
So we know that the amount of wages earned are going to have to be the total. The equation would look like this to start \[W=\]

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

i had an equation but now i dont think its right

Answer 7

"for working x hours in a week when there is no overtime."
We know we do not need to include $9 because they said no overtime

Answer 8

oh ok

Answer 9

How much did he make per hour?

Answer 10

it says he makes $6 an hour

Answer 11

Okay so you would need to multiply $6 by x to see how much he makes in a week, Am I right?

Answer 12

yes i think. Sorry im horrible at math

Answer 13

Its okay your doing good (^o^)

Answer 14

thanks (:

Answer 15

So show me how you think the equation would look with the information I helped you with.

Answer 16

w= 6x + 9 = 40??

Answer 17

Remember what I said! With A they said do not add overtime and 9 is overtime. The equation would look something like this\[W=6x\]

Answer 18

ohhhh now i get it

Answer 19

Okay on B. do you understand that you need to find a function S to say how much money was earned total given y hours of overtime?

Answer 20

kind of

Answer 21

Since they are asking for overtime lets think about Y, okay?

Answer 22

ok

Answer 23

If we have overtime we would still need to think about the normal hours worked.

Answer 24

so we have to think about 6

Answer 25

Yep! So we get $6 dollars for the 40 hours that we know he would have to work. How much money do we have?

Answer 26

$240

Answer 27

Okay so it would look like this

Answer 28

ok so do i put that

Answer 29

Nope not yet let me finish explaining!

Answer 30

sorry >.< (:

Answer 31

We know that it cant just be that because we still would have to calculate the hours overtime

Answer 32

ohhh

Answer 33

It could look like S=9y+240
We got 240 because we would have to assume we already worked 40 hours now y can be any number you like because it is a variable!

Answer 34

ok cx

Answer 35

With C. We can you use some of the information above! We know that that he would have to have work 40 regular hours so we can start going to overtime hours. That would be 240 dollars.

Answer 36

ok

Answer 37

That would leave 90 dollars left and we know he makes $9 every hour with overtime so he would have to work 10 overtime hours. So for C. it would be 40 regular hours and 10 overtime hours.

Answer 38

ok so is it ok if we run by each part

Answer 39

A. was W=6x
B. was S=9y+240
C. was 40 regular hours and 10 overtime hours

Answer 40

thank you soo much and how do you medal

Answer 41

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