How much did Jack make?

Question

Jack works in retail, he gets paid every other Friday (Bi-weekly) his hourly wage is $8.50. Jack worked only 5 days out of those 2 weeks totaling twenty-one and a half hours. How much will Jack's paycheck be on Friday after taxes are subtracted?

Answer 1

There's a lot of information in this wordy word problem, but it boils down to his gross earnings would be 21.5($8.50), which you can calculate. However, since we don't know anything about the tax rate, we cannot answer the question, ultimately.