find last years salaryif,after a 4% pay raise,this years salary is $41,080.

Question

find last years salary

Answer 1

Let x be the old salary (last year's salary)

 

I am going to set up this as a proportion.

Percent/100%= (new salary)/(old salary)

 

104%/ 100% = 41, 080/ x

 

Doing cross products

(104)(x)= (100)(41,080)

104x = 4,108,000  Divide both sides by 104.

x= 39, 500 

So, last year she made 39,500.

 

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