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A pediatric nurse earns $45 per hour in Washington State. Apediatric nurse earns $55 per hour in California. What percent of theWashington State nurse's pay did the California nurse earn? Roundyour answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

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In order to calculate the percent of one nurse over the other, we can divide both payments and then convert the result to a percentage value.

So we have:


(55)/(45)=1.2222=122.22\text{\%}

Therefore the California nurse earns 122.22% of the Washington State nurse's pay.

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