Willie Worker put in 42 hours last week at the widget factory. His base pay is $8.00 per hour and he gets time and a half for any hours beyond 40. Round answers in hours to the nearest whole number and round monetary values to the nearest cent.

Using Method 2:

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Willie Worker put in 42 hours last week at the widget factory. His base pay is $8.00 per hour and he gets time and a half for any hours beyond 40. Round answers in hours to the nearest whole number and round monetary values to the nearest cent.

Using Method 2:

b1az34 · Answer

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Rylee88 · Answer

So he worked 42 hours, which means he got paid more since he worked over 40 hours.

Rylee88 · Answer

His work pays $8.00 per hour, and gets half more if he works over 40 hours as I said above.

Rylee88 · Answer

So how much time is his regular hours?

b1az34 · Answer

so i multiply either 42 by 1.5 or 40 by 1.5 repeatedly on those last 3 boxes the ntimes that by 8

Rylee88 · Answer

Well first lets solve the question, his regular time is 40 hours.

Rylee88 · Answer

Over time is 42.

Rylee88 · Answer

So, what I'm pretty sure you do is 42 by 1.5.

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