after taxes, joshua's take-home pay is 72% of his salary before taxes. write and solve an equation to find joshua's salary before taxes for the pay period that resulted in $556 of take-home pay.

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after taxes, joshua's take-home pay is 72% of his salary before taxes. write and solve an equation to find joshua's salary before taxes for the pay period that resulted in $556 of take-home pay.

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Let Joshua's salary before tax be x, then
0.72x = 556
x = 556/0.72 = 772.22

Therefore, Joshua's salary before taxes is $772.22

Arpit Srivastava answered Mar 25, 2017

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