If your weekly salary is $386.00, how much do you take home each week after deductions for taxes and retirement are made of $177.56?
2 Answers
Explanation:
These become easier to calculate once you get used to them and do some practice.
If it is the decimals that are throwing you this is a little trick you can use.
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So the answer will be:
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Forget about the $ sign for now.
Final answer is
Another approach!
Explanation:
Shown in stages so that you can see what is going on. For the purposes of clarity I am going to space out the columns.
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For 386.00 remove 1 from column 3 and move it to column 2. Remembering that moving one column down changes it to 10.
But we need a number at the top of column 1 so we move 1 of the 10 at the top of column 2 (making it 9) to the top of column 1. Remembering that moving one column down changes it to 10.
We still need to change something before we do the subtraction.
Notice that in column 3 we have
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