Don Swifter earns $9.75 per hour as a clerk. He starts work Monday through Friday morning at 8:00 AM. He takes a one-half hour lunch break every day. If he finishes work at 3:30 PM Monday through Thursday, how late must he work on Friday to have total pay of $360.75 for the week?

ok so first, every day don would take a total of 7 hours and 30 minutes on mon-Thurs. If we subtract his lunch from that total it would be 7 hours so next we do 7 hours times 9.75 which is 68.25$. Now that we know how much he makes per day, we times that by 4 since mon-thurs is 4 days. This would be 273$. Now we need to get to 360.75 so we subtract that. This would be 87.75$. Now if a normal day is 68.25$ and friday is 87.75, we find the diffrence which is 19.50. which is also 9.75(an hour) x 2 resulting in 2 hours extra. Therefore, he works 9 hours and 30 minutes on fridays (until 5:30). Thanks for putting in the work to understand and have a nice day!