Question

If I get paid $19.90 per hour and I get a 3% raise, how much am I now making per hour?

Answer 1

`\text{ New hourly pay = \$20.50}`

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to know the new hourly pay

Mathematically, we have it that:

`\text{ New hourly pay = old hourly pay + (percentage increase in hourly pay}* old\text{ hourly pay)}`

We can write that mathematically as:

`\begin{gathered} \text{New hourly Pay = 19.90 + (}(3)/(100)*19.90) \\ \\ \text{New hourly pay = \$20.497 }\approx\text{ \$20.50} \end{gathered}`