Question

Zelly works 40 hours a week at a food market for $6.50 an hour. She takes home $3.90 an hour after deductions. What is her rate for deductions? Use an equation to model the problem and solve it. User to represent the rate for her deductions. Zelly's rate of deduction is

Answer 1

It is given that Zelly works 20 hours a week at a food market for 7.50 an hour she takes home 6.75 an hour after deductions.

Therefore, the difference between the gross salary and the deducted salary is:

7.5-6.75=0.75

The rate of deduction can be calculated by dividing this difference from the gross salary as:

\frac{0.75}{7.5}=0.1

Now, we know that 0.1 can be rewritten as 10%. Therefore, the required rate of deduction for Zelly is 10%.