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Marcia, whose hourly wage is $10.25, worked 46 hours last week. Find her gross pay for last week if she earns time and a half for overtime. Charles earns a salary of US$60,000 a year. a) If he is paid biweekly, how much is his gross pay? b) If he is paid semi-monthly, how much is his gross pay per period? c) If he is paid weekly, how much is his gross pay per period? Find the selling price and markup for a pair of jeans that cost the retailer $2800 and is marked up 30% of the selling price.

          Marcia, whose hourly wage is $10.25, worked 46 hours last week. Find her gross pay for last week if she earns time and a half for overtime. Charles earns a salary of US$60,000 a year. a) If he is paid biweekly, how much is his gross pay? b) If he is paid semi-monthly, how much is his gross pay per period? c) If he is paid weekly, how much is his gross pay per period? Find the selling price and markup for a pair of jeans that cost the retailer $2800 and is marked up 30% of the selling price.
        
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Marcia, whose hourly wage is $10.25, worked 46 hours last week. Find her gross pay for last week if she earns time and a half for overtime. Charles earns a salary of US$60,000 a year. a) If he is paid biweekly, how much is his gross pay? b) If he is paid semi-monthly, how much is his gross pay per period? c) If he is paid weekly, how much is his gross pay per period? Find the selling price and markup for a pair of jeans that cost the retailer $2800 and is marked up 30% of the selling price.
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00:01 So tim works a job in which he makes $31 ,487 in $4 .4 annually.
00:06 And we're told that he's paid on a semi -monthly basis, meaning that he's paid 24 periods or 24 pay periods a year.
00:15 So the first question we're asked to do is find is a gross pay per pay period.
00:18 So if i divide that by 20, his total salary, by 24 pay periods, he's going to gross, you know, before taxes, $1 ,311.
00:28 And 96 cents.
00:29 So that's his gross pay per pay period.
00:33 And we're told that he works 36 hours a week.
00:35 So if we want to find his hourly wage, we would take his pay period amount that he makes and divide that by 36 to get his hourly rate.
00:47 So when i do that, i get an hourly rate of $36 .44 .4 per hour...
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