Gail received a 7% raise last year. If her salery is now $27,285 what was her salery last year?
1.07x = 27,285
x = 27,285 / 1.07
x = ?
Can you tell me how you got the 1.07X
Gail is earning 107% more than she did last year. 107% = 1.07
if her earnings were increased to 7% for a sum of 27,285 how do I get 107% from 7%?
She receives 100% of her old salary PLUS 7% of that amount. 100 + 7 = 107
To find Gail's salary last year, we need to consider the raise she received. Since Gail received a 7% raise, her salary this year is 107% (= 100% + 7%) of her salary last year.
Let's represent Gail's salary last year as "x".
We can set up the following equation to solve for x:
x + (7% of x) = $27,285
To calculate 7% of x, we can multiply x by 7% (which can be expressed as a decimal as 0.07).
0.07 * x = $27,285 - x
We can simplify the equation:
0.07x = 0.93x = $27,285
Now we can solve for x by dividing both sides of the equation by 0.93:
x = $27,285 / 0.93
Calculating this gives us:
x ≈ $29,400.86
Therefore, Gail's salary last year was approximately $29,400.86.