Question

Please help my brain is dead -_-

Lynn has an annual income of $17,500. she has $5,500 withheld as deductions. What is the amount of each paycheck if she gets paid biweekly?
please explain your answer i actually want to learn this THANKS

Answer 1

with out deductions the total will be 729.16. but with the deductions the income will be 500.

Answer 2

Ok, I hope I revive your brain honey! So annual we know, is a year, 12 months, 52 weeks, right? So what we do here now, as you mentioned the $5,500 deductions, subtract that right off the bat we get $12,000. Now we want to go ahead and divide 52 by 2. The reason is because it's bi-weekly; every 2 weeks. So, 52/2 = 26. Then what we do now is divide $12,000 by 26. We get a whole number but... IT HAS A DECIMAL! OH WHAT DO WE DO!. Well, we are going to round that decimal. So we have 461.538461538 as our decimal, so we want to round that to 461.54. She earns $461.54 biweekly. I hoped I help! ^-^