Kyle Forman worked $48$ hours during the week for Erickson Company at two different jobs. His pay rate was $$14\mathrm{.}60$ for the first $40$ hours, and his pay rate

was $$12\mathrm{.}30$ for the other $8$ hours.

Round your overtime rate and other interim computations to two decimal places and use the rounded amount in subsequent computations.

Round the final answers to the nearest cent.

Determine his gross pay for that week if the company uses the one$-$half average rate method.

a$.$ Gross pay

$ $,x$

b$.$ If prior agreement existed that overtime would be paid at the rate for the job performed after the ${40}^{th}$ hour, the gross pay would be

$