Question

in a recent year the annual salary of the governor of New York was 1790000 during the same year the annual salary of the governor of Tennessee was 940000 less write and solve an equation to find the annual salary of the government of Tennessee in that year

Answer 1

Step 1 : Let's review the information given to us to answer the problem correctly:

• Annual salary of the governor of New York = $ 1,790,000

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• Annual salary of the governor of Tennessee = $ 940,000

Step 2: Let x to represent the annual salary of the governor of New York

and let's find the ratio of the salary of the governor of Tennessee, as follows:

940,000/1,790,000 = 0.525

Step 3: Now, let's write the equation for calculating the salary of the governor of Tennessee for any given year, this way:

• 0.525x = Annual salary of the governor of Tennessee

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Step 4: If the salary of the governor of New York for the next year is 2,000,000, then we can calculate the salary of the governor of Tennessee, this way:

0.525x = 0.525 * 2,000,000 = 1,050,000

The annual salary of the governor of Tennessee woudl be 1,050,000