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# An employee is paid 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for

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An employee is paid 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for [#permalink]  28 Jul 2010, 06:44
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An employee is paid 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours per week, excluding Sunday, and 2 times the regular hourly rate for each hour worked on Sunday. How much was the employee paid last week?

1 The employee's regular hourly rate is $10. 2 Last week the employee worked a total of 54 hours but did not work more than 8 hours on any day . Pleas, I have been in so much cofused with D.S lately and my test day is approach help me with an easy way or any related way that can work on most of the questions thanks guys Manager Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 90 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]: 10 [0], given: 2 Re: D.S [#permalink] 28 Jul 2010, 07:13 to find the employee paid last week - we need to know how much hours he has worked on each day,overttime, - what are his hourly rates stmt1 gives the rate but no idea how much he has worked stmt2 employee has worked 54-40=14 hours more. since has not worked more than 8 hours per day, can either divide 54 in (8,8,8,8,8,8,6) or (6,8,8,8,8,8,8) stmt is not suff because - we do not know the wages per hour - there are many combination possible for hours worked. if on sunday he works 8 or 6 hours, then the wage wil change both stmt1 and stmt2 not enough _________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amar http://amarnaik.wordpress.com Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Location: India Concentration: General Management, Entrepreneurship GMAT 1: 710 Q49 V0 GMAT 2: 740 Q40 V50 GMAT 3: 700 Q48 V38 GMAT 4: 710 Q45 V41 GPA: 4 Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 102 [0], given: 88937 Re: D.S [#permalink] 28 Jul 2010, 13:07 I'm in the same boat re: DS. I really think practice is the only way to get these down perfectly. In the case of this question, there are a lot of interesting variables, and GMAT wants to make sure you're paying attention. You know that regular overtime = 1.5r * (t - 40), where r is regular hourly rate and t is total hours. You are also told the employee gets a special Sunday overtime = 2r * (S) where S equals hours worked on Sunday. The final question is: how much was the employee paid last week? Meaning we need variables r, t, and s. 1) This provides r, but not t or S. INSUF 2) This provides t but not S. INSUF Without a clear explanation of what portion of t was hours worked on Sunday, we can't solve for Sunday overtime. Therefore, 1 and 2 are INSUF together. ANSWER: E Senior Manager Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 478 Followers: 4 Kudos [?]: 55 [0], given: 9 Re: D.S [#permalink] 28 Jul 2010, 13:29 We learn through Practice. Keep working on DS, few of the questions are tricky; you just have to avoid capturing yourself in DS Trap. Anyways; E for the above question... _________________ GGG (Gym / GMAT / Girl) -- Be Serious Its your duty to post OA afterwards; some one must be waiting for that... Re: D.S [#permalink] 28 Jul 2010, 13:29 Similar topics Replies Last post Similar Topics: 1 A certain employee is paid$6 per hour for an 8-hour workday. If the e 6 22 Dec 2014, 07:52
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