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Salaries/Piecework
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Random Knowledge
100

Your neighbor has agreed to pay you $8.00 per hour if you will tutor her son in reading. If you spend 9.5 hours each week helping him, how much straight-time pay will you earn each week?

$76

100

Sam Stevens, a mechanical engineer, earns an annual salary of $74,500. What is his biweekly salary?

$2865.38

100

You get a 6% commission on all your sales. If your total sales are $125,650.   What is your commission?

$7539

100

A salesperson earns a $500 weekly salary plus a 6% commission on sales. This week, they sold $8,000 worth of products. How much did they earn this week?

$980

100

How many bones are in the human body?

206

200

Juan made $617.50 last week and he worked 38 hours. How much does he make per hour?

$16.25

200

Maria earns $2,465.30 semimonthly, how much does she earn annually?

$59,167.20

200

Your bill at a restaurant comes to $123.98, you decide to tip 18%. How much do you tip?

$22.32

200

A restaurant server earns $12 per hour and works 44 hours this week. Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate. The server also earns $150 in tips. What is the server's total earnings for the week?

$702

200

What is the largest bird in the world?

Ostrich

300

Ricardo works 44 hours at $10.00 per hour with time and a half for all time over 40 hours. Find Ricardo's gross pay.

$460

300

You are an upholsterer and work in the upholstery department of a furniture factory. You are paid at the following rates: $127 for each couch, $115 for each loveseat, and $83 for each chair that you upholster. During the last 4 weeks, you upholstered 6 couches, 24 chairs and 27 loveseats. What is your total pay for the 4 weeks of work?

$5859

300

Maddie and 3 of her friends went out to eat at Applebee's. They spent $200.86. They split the bill evenly between them. They left a 20% tip. How much did Maddie spend all together on her share of the meal and tip?

$60.26

300

Marge earns a salary of $56,700 annually and earns a 4% commission on sales. If she has $3,300 is sales that month, how much did she make?

$4857

300

In what year was the first Apple iPhone released?

2007

400

Amanda Roberts works a Monday through Friday work week at a rate of $8.75 per hour. She takes a 1-hour lunch break. If she clocks in each day at 8:45 A.M. and leaves at 5:15 P.M., what is her total pay for the week?

$328.13

400

Who earns more per week?

James earns $89,900 per year.

June earns $260 per day.

June earns $1825 a week

James earns 1728.85 a week

400

Bob makes 6% commission on house sales. He sold two houses this month. The first house sold for $134,000 and the second house sold for $234,900. How much commission did he make in total for both houses?

$22,134

400

Joe makes $14 an hour and time and a half for any hours over 40. He worked 46 hours last week. He also earned a $250 bonus last week. How much did he make in total?

$936

400

In Elf, what’s the name of the department store Buddy works in?

Gimbels

500

Piping Hot Pizza’s busiest days fall on the weekend. It offers its employees time-and-a-half pay on Saturdays and double-time pay on Sundays. Lisa Edwards normally earns $10.50 per hour. If, in addition to her regular 25 hours, she works 4 hours on Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday, what is her total pay for the week?

$449.50

500

You take a job as a packer for Bezerk Bottling Blitz Inc. You fill cartons with bottles. Monday through Friday you are paid 75 cents for each carton you fill. On Saturdays you are paid an additional 28 cents for each carton you fill. What is your total pay for a week in which you filled the following number of cartons? Mon - 98 Tues - 121 Wed - 138 Thurs - 100 Fri - 110 Sat - 139

$568.42

500

Josh left a $10.48 tip on an $87.32 bill. What percent was the tip?

12%

500

Tidy Maid's earn $12.25 an hour plus 13% commission on all cleaning services. One of the maids worked 26 hours last week and did $870 in cleaning services. How much did she make that week?

$431.60

500

Mageirocophobia is the fear of what?

Cooking