Question

Rodney’s salary increased by 15% to $48,000 annually. What was his pay before the increase?

Answer 1

$41739.13

Explanation:

We will start by creating an equation for the problem.

Set Rodney's salary before the increase as
`x`.

Changing the 15% to a decimal and making sure it's an increase we get 1.15

If we work backwards we get the equation:

`(1.15)x=48000`

`\text{Solving for } x\text{ we divide }48000 \text{ by } 1.15 \text{ and we get the answer of } 41739.13`