Introduction to College Math – Unit 1 Review
1.1 – I can find weekly pan on an hourly wage job.
1. 40 hrs @ $7.60/hr
$304
2. 37.5 hrs @ $7.90/hr
$296.25
3. 36 hrs @ $4.50/hr
$162
4. 31.25 hrs @ $14.50/hr
$453.13
5. Ben Favreau was hired for the position of billing clerk. During his first week on the job,
he worked 7.5 hours each day at $5.75, Monday through Friday. What was his total pay
for the week?
$215.63
6. 46 hrs (40 hr work week) @$9.00/hr with time and a half overtime pay
$441
7. 47 hrs (40 hr work week) @$11.50/hr with time and a half overtime pay
$580.75
8. 45 hrs (37 hr work week) @$9.60/hr with time and a half overtime pay
$470.40
9. 36.5 hrs regular pay @$5.15/hr & 7.25 hrs @ holiday double time pay
$262.66
10. George Keller earns a regular hourly rate of $8.64. He earns time and a half for
overtime work on Saturdays and double time for overtime on Sundays. This week he
worked 40 hours from Monday through Friday, 8 hours on Saturday, and 7 hours on
Sunday. What is his total pay for the week?
$570.24
Time Card
In
Out
In
Out Total 11. Gail Stough earns $6.40 per
hour. Use her time card to find her
Monday 8:15 12:15 1:00 5:00
8
total pay for the week. $256
Tuesday 8:30 12:00 12:35 5:20 8.25
Wednesday 8:28 12:05 12:30 4:30
7.5
Thursday 8:15 1:45
2:15 4:59 8.25
Friday 8:30 12:20 12:50 5:00
8
Total
40
Time Card
In
Out
In
Out Total
12. Eddie Irwin is paid $7.25 for
Monday 8:15 12:00 12:30 4:30 7.75
a regular 37 hour week. His
Tuesday 8:30 12:30 1:10 5:10
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overtime rate is time and a half.
Wednesday 8:35 12:50 1:30 5:00 7.75
Use his time card to find his total
Thursday 8:15 12:10 12:45 4:25
7.5
pay for the week.
$295.44
Friday 8:25 1:15
1:50 5:30
8.5
Total
39.5
Time Card
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Total
In
7:00
7:10
6:50
6:58
7:15
7:05
Out
11:00
11:30
11:15
10:45
11:49
12:45
In
12:00
12:00
11:55
11:25
12:30
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Out
4:20
5:15
4:20
3:50
5:02
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Total
8.25
9.5
8.75
8.25
9
5.75
49.5
13. Lucy Wallace is paid $7.80
for a regular 40 hour work week.
Her overtime rate is time and a
half. Use he timecard to find her
total pay for the week. $423.15
1.2 – I can find weekly pay when I get paid per item or job I produce (Piecework).
1. 140 items @$3.20/item
$448
2. 1494 items @15/item
$224.10
3. Hailey Bellhour, beauty shop owner, gave 60 haircuts today and charges $10.50 per
haircut. How much did she make today?
$630
4. Carol Ying assembles calculators at Central Electronics. She is paid 45 for each
calculator she assembles. What is her pay for a day in which she assembles 134
calculators?
$60.30
5. Jeremy Sullivan delivers newspapers for the Dispatch. He receives 4.2 per paper, 6
days a week, for the daily paper, and 25 for the Sunday paper. He delivers 124 daily
papers each day and 151 Sunday papers each week. What is his total pay for the week?
$69
For problems 6-8, refer to the chart below for pricing.
Spacing
Rate per Page
6. A 12-page, single-spaced report plus 2
Single-space
$2.25
copies of each page. $30.60
Double-space
1.25
Space-and-a-half 1.75
7. A 35-page, double-spaced term paper
**Duplicate copies $0.15 per page
plus 1 copy of each page. $49
8. A financial report with 14 single-spaced pages, 31 double-spaced pages, and 6 spaceand-a-half pages. Plus 6 copies of each page. $126.65
1.3 – I can find total pay for a pay period when I get paid by salary.
1. Find the biweekly salary for $42,900
$1,650
2. Find the semimonthly salary for $18,200
$758.33
3. You are a legal clerk and you annual salary is $12,500. What is your weekly salary?
$240.38
4. Ben Rodebaugh is a medical lab assistant. His annual salary is $17,400. What is his
monthly salary?
$1,450
5. Louis Rahn is currently earning an annual salary of $15,090 at Budgett Electronics. He
has been offered a job at Delta Tech at an annual salary of $16,660. How much more
would Louis earn per week at Delta Tech than at Budgett Electronics?
$320.38 - $290.19 = $30.19
6. When Paul Sellers first started working at Custom Computers, he was paid a biweekly
salary of $615. Custom Computers is now converting to a new payroll system and will
be paying its employees on a semi-monthly basis. What will Paul’s semimonthly salary
be?
$666.25
7. Sune Fung earns a weekly salary of $350 at Howard’s Department Store. Next month,
she will be promoted from assistant buyer to buyer. In her new position, she will be
paid $895 semimonthly. How much more per year will Sune earn as a buyer than an
assistant buyer?
$3,280
8. Assume that your present job pays a monthly gross salary of $1,560. You are offered a
new position that pays $8.60 per hour with time and a half for all hours over 40 per
week. How many hours of overtime per week would you need to earn the same
amount per week as your present job?
1.24 hours
1.4 – I can find total pay for a pay period when I get paid by commission.
1. $9,500 in sales for a week at 3$ commission on sales.
$285
2. $4,226 in sales for the week and 6.5% commission on sales.
$274.69
3. Maude Eggert sells cosmetics for Soft Touch, Inc. She is guaranteed a salary of $790 a
month or 7.25% of her total sales, whichever is greater. What is her gross pay for a
month in which her total sales were $10,984.
$796.34
4. Irma DeWolfe is paid either a commission or $4.75 per hour plus time and a half
overtime for all hours over 8 per day, whichever is greater. Her commission consists of
5.5% of sales. Find her gross pay for a week in which she worked 6 hours on Monday, 8
hours on Tuesday, 10 hours on Wednesday, 6 hours on Thursday, 10 hours on Friday,
and 9 hours on Saturday. Her total sales for the week were $4,100.
$244.63
5. Madelyn Carr is a sales representative. She receives a 7% commission on all sales. At
the end of the year, she receives a bonus of 5% on her commission. What is her total
pay for a year in which she had sales totaling $412,454?
$30,315.37
6. Commission: 10% on the first $5,000; 15% over $5,000. Find the total graduated
commission on $22,000.
$3,050
7. Jean Gray sells office supplies. She receives a graduated commission of 4% on her first
$2,000 of sales and 8.5% on all sales over $2,000. Jean’s sales for the past week totaled
$3,925. What is her commission for the week?
$243.63
8. Charles Beaudry sells computer hardware for a computer firm. He is paid a 4%
commission on the first $6,000 of sales, 6% on the next $10,000, and 8% on sales over
$16,000. What is his commission on $24,550 in sales?
$1,524
9. Ralph King demonstrates cookware at the National Food Fair. He is paid $6.00 each for
the first 10 demonstrations in one day and $7.50 for each demonstration over 10. What
is Ralph’s commission for a day in which he makes 21 demonstrations?
$142.50
10. Bill Weston is a part-time salesman and gets 20% on the first $500, 25% on the next
$1,000, 30% on sales over $1,500. Bill’s total sales for the week were $1,940; what is his
commission?
$482