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Financial advisors recommend putting 20% of your earnings into savings. If a

person saves $700, how much did they earn?

User Alli
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Actually Welcome to the Concept of the Ratio and Percentage.

Let the total salary be x, so we get as,

20 % of x = $700

hence, x would be,

(20/100)*x = 700

===> x = 70000/20

===> x = $3500

===> hence the total earning of them is $3500

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