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4 years ago

A man pays 20% of his salary as tax and has 24,000$ left. How much did he pay as tax

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puteri [66]4 years ago

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Answer:

He paid $6,000 in taxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

His final amount after taxes is $24000. In order to obtain this number we had to tax 20% of the total (Note that 100%-20%=80%). In other words if he was taxed 20% he took home 80% of what he was paid. Therefore mathematically we have:

$0.8A_{pre-tax}=A_{taxed}$

Since we know he was left with $24000 after taxes then:

$0.8A_{pre-tax}=24000\\\\\frac{0.8A_{pre-tax}}{0.8}=\frac{24000}{0.8}\\\\A_{pre-tax}=\frac{24000}{0.8}\\\\A_{pre-tax}=30000$

So originally he had $30,000. So how much did he pay in taxes? We can calculate the difference of both pretax and after tax and we get:

$30,000 - $24,000= $6,000 taxed

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Step-by-step explanation:

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