Sarah earns $400 per week and spends 15% of her earning on transportaiton how much dose sarah spend on transporttaion every week

Question

Sarah earns $400 per week and spends 15% of her earnings on transportation how much does sarah spend on transportation every week

Answer 1

Hello Davette,

You’re told Sarah spends 15% of her earnings on transportation. In other words, money spent on transportation is equal to 15% of her earnings.

You can treat the preposition “of” in “15% of her earnings” as a multiplication sign. That means you would multiply 15% by her earnings, and the answer would be how much she spends on transportation:

15% x 400 = 0.15 x 400 = 60

Answer: Sarah spends $60 on transportation every week.