Question

Mr. Whittaker earns b dollars biweekly. His employer is changing the pay procedure to monthly, but no annual salaries are changing. Express his monthly salary algebraically.

Answer 1

Monthly salary= annual salary

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# of paychecks

26b

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12

Answer 2

`2b`.

Explanation:

We have been given that Mr. Whittaker earns b dollars biweekly. We are asked to find monthly salary algebraically.

We know that biweekly salary means paid twice in a month.

Twice the biweekly salary would be
`2b`.

Therefore, Mr. Whittaker's monthly salary would be
`2b`.