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Yara just received a 6% raise in salary of 3,120 per year how much per year was she earning before the raise

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She would've recieved 52,000 (Fairly certain thats right)
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before the raise, Yara was making "x", which is 100% of her salary,
now, later on she got a 6% of that "x" in increased salary, and she's
making 3,120, so 100% + 6% added, is 3,120
thus
\bf \begin{array}{ccllll} amount&\%\\ \textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash&\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\\ x&100\\ 3,120&100+6 \end{array}\implies \cfrac{x}{3,120}=\cfrac{100}{100+6}

solve for "x"
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