An Employee Receives an Hourly Rate of $40, with Time

question 111

Multiple Choice

An employee receives an hourly rate of $40, with time and a half for all hours worked in excess of 40 during a week. Payroll data for the current week are as follows: hours worked, 46; federal income tax withheld, $350; cumulative earnings for year prior to current week, $99,700; social security tax rate, 6.0% on maximum of $100,000; and Medicare tax rate, 1.5% on all earnings. What is the gross pay for the employee?

• A) $775.00
• B) $1,840.00
• C) $1,960.00
• D) $1,562.60

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Definitions:

Student T-distribution

A probability distribution that is used for estimating population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, depicting that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that models the number of successes in a fixed number of independent Bernoulli trials with the same probability of success.

F-distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variance and is used to calculate whether two observed variances are significantly different.