Question

Darren has gotten 2 offers for jobs in the alternative energy industry. offer #1 pays $31,000 per year with 2,000 raise each year. Offer #2 pays $26,000 per year with $2,500 raise each year. Use guess and check or any other method to solve.

A) financially, which job should he take?




B) At what point in time does offer #2 become a better offer?

Answer 1

Answer: Darren

A) Job Offer #1 would be better financially until job offer 2 (in 12 years) would be a better and have more income, so IMO job offer #1 would set you better off financially

B) it would take 12 years for job offer #2 to become a better offer (you can also express this in your own words if needed)