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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: HELP....Don't understand this concept...PT 2! |
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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.
Answer is E, both statements together are not sufficient.
*I thought the answer was C. Since the employee worked a total of 54 hours but did not work more than 8 hours on any day, (Monday thru Saturday she could work 8 days per, giving her 48 hours of work then 6 hours on Sunday).
Is it that the question doesn't say the employee can or can't work Saturdays which makes my logic wrong?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: HELP....Don't understand this concept...PT 2! |
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| smclean23 wrote: | 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.
Answer is E, both statements together are not sufficient.
*I thought the answer was C. Since the employee worked a total of 54 hours but did not work more than 8 hours on any day, (Monday thru Saturday she could work 8 days per, giving her 48 hours of work then 6 hours on Sunday).
Is it that the question doesn't say the employee can or can't work Saturdays which makes my logic wrong?
PLEASE HELP. |
Your problem is one tiny little word, a word that has caused many test takers much grief over time.
| Quote: | | I thought the answer was C. Since the employee worked a total of 54 hours but did not work more than 8 hours on any day, (Monday thru Saturday she could work 8 days per, giving her 48 hours of work then 6 hours on Sunday). |
You're 100% correct - the employee COULD work 8 hours on the other days of the week. Using those numbers, we can come up with AN answer to the question.
However, the employee COULD also work 8 hours on Sunday and 46 hours on the other days of the week, giving us a different answer to the question.
Since we can arrive at more than 1 answer, we don't have enough information: choose (E).
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