Question

If you earn $150.00 per week and save 25%, how much money are you saving weekly?

Answer 1

$37.5, Hope this helps!

Explanation:

Ok, let's start!!!

What do we know?

We earn 150 dollars a week

We save 25% of 150

(THIS WILL BE A KEY SENTENCE WHEN LEARNING ABOUT PERCENTS)

We need to find out how much money we save a week

Let's Solve!

So, we need to solve 25% of 150.

We are going to use an x for our unknown number.

Write,

x = 25% of 150

Rewrite,

x = 25% * 150

Rewrite,

x = 0.25 * 150

Now we want to get rid of the decimal as much as possible, so, we are going to chop the 0 from 150 and move the decimal point so 0.25 becomes 2.5.

Rewrite, (AGAIN!)

x = 2.5 * 15

Multiply,

x = 37.5

Now put the unit,

$37.5

ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO ADD THE UNIT!!!!!!!

Yay! Nice Job!

We got through that together, high fives for everyone!

Answer 2

$37.5

Explanation:

If you're earning $150.00 per week and if you save 25% then

you're saving 25% of $150.00 weekly.

To find this amount we can multiply 0.25 with 150.00=37.5.