3% * $12.00 per hour

Question

Elsie's employer gave a cost -of- living raise of 3%. if Elsie makes $12 per hour, how much will her new wage be? 

Answer 1

It will be the sum of her old wage and 3% of her old wage, where 3% of her old wage is 0.03 multiplied by her old wage.  Put these together and see that her new wage is 1.03 times her old wage:

 

New wage = 1.03 ($12.00 per hour) = $12.36 per hour