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# Every week, Renee is paid $40 per hour for the first 40 hour  Question banks Downloads My Bookmarks Reviews Important topics Author Message TAGS: GRE Prep Club Legend Joined: 07 Jun 2014 Posts: 4857 GRE 1: Q167 V156 WE: Business Development (Energy and Utilities) Followers: 105 Kudos [?]: 1776 [0], given: 397 Every week, Renee is paid$40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink]  25 Aug 2018, 15:28
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Every week, Renee is paid $40 per hour for the first 40 hours she works, and$80 per hour for each hour she works after the first 40 hours. How many hours would Renee have to work in one week to earn an average (arithmetic mean) of $60 per hour that week? (A) 60 (B) 65 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 80 [Reveal] Spoiler: OA _________________ Sandy If you found this post useful, please let me know by pressing the Kudos Button Try our free Online GRE Test Director Joined: 07 Jan 2018 Posts: 598 Followers: 7 Kudos [?]: 538 [0], given: 88 Re: Every week, Renee is paid$40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink]  02 Sep 2018, 21:26
For the first 40 hrs she earns $40 per hr hence she should work for the first 40 hrs. Her income on that would be$1600
For each hr more she will earn $80. Hence, let the extra hrs she works be x then for that she earns 80x. By question, $$\frac{80x + 1600}{40+x} = 60$$ solve for x; x = 40 Therefore, total hrs she has to work for the week to earn$60 avg would be 80 hrs.
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Re: Every week, Renee is paid $40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink] 15 Oct 2018, 09:04 Renee makes$40*40 hours=$1600 in first 40 hours Let 't' be the no of hours Renee would work. Given, Renee makes$80 per hour for each hour she works after the first 40 hours. So, she makes an additional pay $80*(t-40)hours for every hour after 40 hours. So, 1600+80(t−40)t=601600+80(t−40)t=60 Or, 1600+80t-3200=60t Or, 20t=1600 or, t=80 hours Ans. (E) Manager Joined: 23 Oct 2018 Posts: 57 Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 0 [0], given: 0 Re: Every week, Renee is paid$40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink]  23 Oct 2018, 09:45
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Re: Every week, Renee is paid $40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink] 10 Jan 2019, 17:54 Hovsep wrote: can the answer be D? How please explain. I think, may be not. Director Joined: 09 Nov 2018 Posts: 509 Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 21 [0], given: 1 Re: Every week, Renee is paid$40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink]  10 Jan 2019, 17:57
ruposh6240 wrote:
So, 1600+80(t−40)t=601600+80(t−40)t=60

I don't get it.
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Re: Every week, Renee is paid $40 per hour for the first 40 hour [#permalink] 10 Jan 2019, 20:58 This is a select one multiple choice question there can be only 1 ans choice. Ans is D _________________ This is my response to the question and may be incorrect. Feel free to rectify any mistakes Re: Every week, Renee is paid$40 per hour for the first 40 hour   [#permalink] 10 Jan 2019, 20:58
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