Question

a student is offered two different summer jobs. job a lasts 16 weeks and pays $400.00 per week. job b lasts 4 months and pays $1,300.00 per month, with monthly raises of 10% of the previous month's salary. how much more does the student earn by accepting job a (rounded to the nearest cent)

Answer 1

6400.00 job a

5200.00 job b 10 percent of 1300.00 is 130.00