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Your pay as a lifeguard is $14.50\$14.50 an hour for a regular 40-hour week. Your overtime rate is 1121\frac{1}{2} times your regular hourly rate. During this past week, you earned $712.50\$712.50 in total pay. How many hours of overtime did you work in that week?

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$14.50×40=$580\$ 14.50 \times 40 = \$ 580

The straight time pay is the product of the hourly rate and the number of regular work hours.

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