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GED Math: Expression and Equations Drill 5, Problem 5. How much was Eileen paid in total?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du
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jour brought to you by over time Unfortunately for poor
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fabulous wealthy athletes they don't get paid any extra for
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playing them Eileen makes twelve bucks an hour working regular
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hours and twenty four bucks an hour Working overtime at
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several time baby Last week she worked forty regular hours
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and eight overtime hours How much was she paid in
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total And here the pen plan through All right well
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wow Looks like eileen makes double the usual rape when
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she's working overtime Too bad she can't just work over
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All right So last week she worked forty hours making
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twelve bucks an hour and another eight hours working twenty
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four dollars an hour Well really is just a multiplication
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problem or a couple of multiplication problems In one first
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we take the forty hours times twelve bucks to get
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four hundred eighty dollars right Well that's how much i
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lean made for working her regularly scheduled hour Then we
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take eight hours times twenty four dollars an hour double
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time thing and it looks like he was able to
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tack on an extra hundred ninety two dollars by burn
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the midnight oil last step We just have to add
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those two together to get the total That gets us
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four hundred eighty plus one hundred ninety two which totals
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six hundred seventy two which is answered be so probably
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not quite enough to start making payments on that ferrari
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he always wanted but she could probably buy herself an
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awfully nice blender Baby steps right I lied We're just 00:01:33.754 --> [endTime] nothing
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