Samantha worked for an hour at a time-and-a-half and was paid $36.90.
What is her normal hourly rate of pay?
Really confused! ps. if you can show me how you got the answer that would be great.
(1hour + 1/2hour)* pay = $36.90
1.5*pay=$36.90
divide both sides by 1.5
pay = $36.90/1.5
pay = $24.60
+118724 Samantha worked for an hour at time-and-a-half and was paid $36.90.
Yes I can see why you find it confusing.
When I get confusing questions I change the numbers to easier ones to see what will happen.
If I can work out how to do an easier one then I can use the same method to do the hard one.
Say Samantha worked 1 hour at double time and got paid $20
(double time means 2*normal pay - So samantha would get paid twice as much as normal)
Then normal pay would be $10 per hour, right? Because OR 2*10=20
okay, how can i put 2 and 20 together to get 10? Umm, 20$$\div$$2 = 10 That is good
$20 $$\div$$ 2 hours = $10 dollars per hour.
NOW yours is time and a half that is 1.5 *normal pay and that equalled $36.90 for 1 hour
so normal pay must be $36.90 $$\div$$ 1.5 = $24.60
Think about it and tell me if that works for you.
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CPhill and I were doing this at the same time. If you understand his method it is better than this one!
