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Lessons 9

The hourly wage at a fast food restaurant starts at $4.75 per hour with $0.25 increments after each subsequent year of working experience at the restaurant. Hourly employees can work only 37.5 hours per week, do not get paid vacations, and work 52 weeks per year.

Can you develop a table that shows at each stage of a nine year employment period what an employee earns each week and each year?

Let X represent the wage per hour, let Y1 be the weekly income, and let Y2 be the yearly income.

1. Turn on the CASIO FX7400G.
   
   
2. For the Y1 slot enter the expression 37.5 X and press   or just press when at the main menu screen.
   
3. For the Y2 slot enter the expression 52 (37.5 X) and press (Make sure no other Y-slot is highlighted, i.e. selected for computation.)
   

Press (RANG)

Scroll down and set the parameters as follows:

Press after entering each value.

Table Range:
X
Strt: 4.75
End: 6.75
ptch: 0.25

Press
Press (TABL)

Use your cursor arrows to move about the table that has been created. To see Y2 values you must use your right cursor arrow.

Press
Press

Turn off the CASIO FX7400G.
(OFF)