Jane is paid 14.85 an hour for regular 40 hour work week. her overtime pay for any hours over 40 per week is 1.5 times her regular hourly rate. this past week and Jane earned $727.65 in total pay. how many hours of overtime did she work this past week?

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Tiffany Huber

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6 February, 02:26

Jane is paid 14.85 an hour for regular 40 hour work week. her overtime pay for any hours over 40 per week is 1.5 times her regular hourly rate. this past week and Jane earned $727.65 in total pay. how many hours of overtime did she work this past week?

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Adalyn · Answer 1

Around 6 hours (exact decimal would be 5.99865). I did this by multiplying 14.85*40 (getting 594). After that, I subtracted 594 from 727.65 (getting 133.65), then multiplying 14.85 by 1.5, getting 22.28, and then, I did 133.65/22.28, getting 5.99865, which I rounded to 6.