Question

Gail received a 5% raise last year. If her salary is now 28,140, what was her salary last year

Answer 1

What you do is 28,140 - 5% cause when you are doing a type of problem like this (trying to fins what was the last year) that means to subtract cause she now has 28,140 , and that was from a 5% raise but what she is trying to figure out is that how much did she have before the raise , so we are gong to grab the increased salary (28,140) with the raise percentage that made it increase (5%) , now you subtract , 28,140 - 5% = 26,733 .. I subtracted and found my answer :)

your answer is 26,733 hope this helps :)

Answer 2

OK so you multiply 28140 by 5% and get 1407, so now you know what 5% is. so all you have to do now is subtract 1407 from 28140 and you will get 26733