Rick James is paid $18.00 an hour as a pastry chef for a regular 35-hour week. His overtime rate is 1.5 times his regular hourly rate. This week he worked his regular 35 hours plus 8 hours of overtime. What is his total pay for the week?

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?