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Question 1 of 12Adam earns $25.60 an hour.He earns normal time during week days and time-and-a-half on weekends. Last week, he worked 36 hours during the week and 8 hours over the weekend. His wage for the week was?
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Question 3 of 12Yazmin works 3 hours at time-and-a-half and 2 hours double time. She earns $238. Her normal hourly rate is?
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Question 4 of 12A window washer earns $24.50 per hour and a height allowance of $64 per day. In 1 week (5 days), he works 8 hours per day. How much did he earn for the week?
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Question 5 of 12Betty's normal pay is $18 per hour. This week, she was paid for 8 hours at time-and-a-half. How many hours would Betty need to work at double time to earn the same amount?
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Question 6 of 12A miner earns a wage of $32.50 per hour, plus an allowance of $12.50 for working in a confined space. If a miner works for 36 hours and 12 hours are in a confined space, calculate:
(i) his total weekly income
(ii) his yearly income (52 weeks)
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Question 7 of 12Barak earns $24.20 an hour. He earns normal time during the week and time and a half during the weekends. Last week he worked 36 hours during the week and 8 hours during the weekend, calculate:
(i) His wage during the week
(ii) His wage on the weekend
(iii) His total wage
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Question 8 of 12Wayan earns $28 per hour at the normal rate. Each week she works 20 hours at the normal rate and 5 hours at time and a half.
(i) Calculate Wayan's weekly wage
(ii) Wayan wants to increase her weekly wage to $910 by working extra hours at the normal rate. How many extra hours must Wayan work?
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Question 9 of 12April works a 36 hour week and is paid $24 per hour overtime is paid at time and a half. April wants to work enough overtime to earn $1080.
(i) What is her weekly wage?
(ii) How many hours overtime must she work?
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Question 10 of 12Grant works as a bricklayer and is paid a normal rate of $25/hr. He gets time-and-a-half rates on weekends and double time rates on public holidays. He also gets an extra $2.10/hr when he works in the rain. For one week he worked the following hours:
- 8 hours every day from Monday to Friday
- 3 hours on Saturday
Monday was a public holiday and it rained for a total of 5 hours this week. How much will he get paid?
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Question 11 of 12Rosa works in a factory.She operates an oven and is paid a temperature allowance of $3.50 per hour in addition of her normal rate of $19.50 per hour. She works a total of 40 hours which includes 12 hours of working the oven. What is her total earnings for the week?
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Question 12 of 12Alan's normal pay is $24 per hour. This week he was paid for 6 hours at double time. How many hours would Alan need to work at time-and-a-half to earn the same amount?
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