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.