Business Mathematics Brief 12th Edition by Stanley Salzman ,Gary Clendenen, Charles Miller

Exercise 28

GUARANTEED HOURLY WORK Find the gross earnings for each employee by first finding the daily hourly earnings and then finding the daily piecework earnings. Each employee has an 8-hour workday and is paid $.75 for each unit of production or the hourly rate, whichever is higher. (See Example.)
EXAMPLE
Finding Earnings with a Guaranteed Hourly Wage
Quick TIP
The company guarantees that a tire installer will not earn less than $10.50 per hour or $84 1$10.50 • 82 for an 8-hour day.
A tire installer at the Tire Center is paid $10.50 per hour for an 8-hour day or $1.15 per tire installed, whichever is higher. Find the weekly earnings for an employee having the following rate of production.