If you earn $18 and receive a pay increase of 12% how much money will you make?

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If you earn $18 and receive a pay increase of 12% how much money will you make?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-04T18:15:14

The answer is $$ 18 + $ 2.16 = $ 20.16$ $$18+$2.16=$20.16$

Remember: $12 % \equiv \frac{12}{100}$ $12%-=12/100$

You should calculate $12 %$ $12%$ of $18$ $18$ and add it up to $18$ $18$ to find the new salary.

To calculate $12 %$ $12%$ of $18$ $18$ :

If you earn $$ 100$ $$100$ you would receive $$ 12$ $$12$ pay increase. But you earn $$ 18$ $$18$ so we don't know the increase (lets call it $k$ $k$ )

Since $12 %$ $12%$ is always $12 %$ $12%$ :

$\frac{12}{100} = \frac{k}{18}$ $12/100=k/18$

$k = 18 \cdot (\frac{12}{100}) = \frac{18 \cdot 12}{100} = \frac{216}{100} = 2.16$ $k = 18*(12/100) = (18*12)/100 = 216/100=2.16$

As you can see in this step, if you want to know $x$ $x$ percent of something, you can just multiply something with $\frac{x}{100}$ $x/100$ .

The answer is $$ 18 + $ 2.16 = $ 20.16$ $$18+$2.16=$20.16$

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