Balance scale equations

Create a real-life situation and create a system and show how it might be modeled algebraically with a system of equations (or inequalities) show all work include a few sentences explaining the situation, your variables of choice and what each represents, and how you would set it up and solve it algebraically. !

Nell has a sales clerk job that pays $12 per hour for regular gas work hours. she gets double time for any hours over 40 that she works in a week. how many hours did nell work if her weekly pay was $744

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?