An employee makes $26 an hour. The employee gets paid 2.5 times his normal wage for any hours (or fraction of an hour) worked over 37 hours in a week. One week the employee made $1794 before taxes.   Part A: How many hours of  OVERTIME did the employee work? Make sure to round to the nearest integer. Part B: How many  TOTAL  hours did the employee work? Make sure to round to the nearest integer.

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An employee makes $26 an hour. The employee gets paid 2.5 times his normal wage for any hours (or fraction of an hour) worked over 37 hours in a week. One week the employee made $1794 before taxes.

 

Part A: How many hours of  OVERTIME did the employee work? Make sure to round to the nearest integer.

Part B: How many  TOTAL  hours did the employee work? Make sure to round to the nearest integer.

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