Question

Selina claims single having one exemption. Her state tax deduction is 21% of her federal tax contribution. Calculate the amount of state tax Selina owes if her gross pay for two weeks is $840.

Answer 1

Okay since Selina claims to have 1 tax exemption and also makes 840$ using the chart provided we can find the amount of income tax that is being withheld.
So this gives us 77$ on the chart this is "The Federal Income Tax" (77$ X 0.21) = 16.17$ which is answer A. 16.17$

Answer 2

I have attached federal tax table is for biweekly earnings of a single person.

Answer:

state tax Selena owes = $16.8

Explanation:

1- getting the Federal tax:

We are given that:

her biweekly salary = $840

her claimed allowance = 1 exemption

Using the attached table, we can deduce that:

federal tax = $80

2- getting the state tax:

We know that the state tax is 21% of the federal tax.

This means that:

state tax = 21% * federal tax

state tax = 0.21 * 80

state tax = $16.8

Hope this helps :)