Question

An employee earns $20.79 per hour after receiving a 8 % raise. What was the employee's hourly pay before raise? Round your answer to the nearest cent.

Answer 1

Answer: $19.25

Explanation:

Given : An employee earns $20.79 per hour after receiving a 8 % raise.

i.e The raise percent = 8% =0.08

Let x be the employee's hourly pay before raise.

Then, we have the following equation:-

`x+0.08x=20.79\\\\\Rightarrow\ x=(20.79)/(1.08)\\\\\Rightarrow\ x=19.25`

Hence, the the employee's hourly pay before raise $19.25.

Answer 2

Employee's pay before rise was $19.25.

Explanation:

It is given in the question that an employee earns $20.79 per hour after receiving 8% rise and we have to calculate employee's hourly pay before rise.

So to solve this let's assume employee's hourly pay before rise was $a

Then after raise the salary will be = $a + 8% of $a

= a + (a×
`(8)/(100)`

Now a+(.08)a = 20.79

⇒ 1.08a = 20.79

⇒ a = 20.79÷1.08

⇒ a = $19.25

So employee's hourly pay before rise was $19.25.