Ashely is making $500 a week at her job. She receives a 20% pay raise. A year later she takes a 5% pay cut. How much money does
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Answer:
<em>$570 a week</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Percentage Calculations </u>
One tricky fact about percentages is that they are usually performed over the last computed quantity. It makes them non-additive. For example, a raise of 10% followed by a 10% some time later, is NOT a 20% of total raise
The question states Ashely is making $500 a week at her job and that she receives a 20% pay raise. After that raise she will make
A year later she takes a 5% pay cut. We must be careful to take that percentage from the last earnings. She now makes
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Answer:
200 kg
Step-by-step explanation:
First hour he sold 15% <em>(remaining is 85%)</em>
Second hour he sold 20% of remaining <em>(which is 85%)</em> -- so he sold , which is 17% (remaining 85-17=68%)
Third hour he sold 25% of remaining <em>(which is 68%)</em> -- so he sold , which is 17%
In third hour he sold 34, so 17% is 34. To find total he initially had, we need to find (100%). We can setup the ratio (letting x equal his initial amount):
Initially the farm stand owner had 200 kg of apples.