Question

a man got a 4000 dollar said which equated to an 11% raise. What was his salary before the raise?

Answer 1

i set it up .11(x) = 4000+x

Answer 2

i got roughly 36,000

Answer 3

it should say got a 4000 dollar raise which equated to 11% increase in his salary*****

Answer 4

so you are asking $4000 is 11% of what number

Answer 5

translate into math

\[4000=.11\times x\]

Answer 6

"is" becomes =
"of" becomes x
and "what number" is our variable.

Answer 7

solve in one step via
\[x=\frac{4000}{.11}\]

Answer 8

oh and of course i should add that 11% becomes .11 because we compute with numbers, not percents.

Answer 9

i get an original salary of $36,363.63

Answer 10

cool, thats what I got i actually had 4000-x = 1.11*x

Answer 11

so it equated to the same but by dumb luck :) thanks!

Answer 12

i mean 4000+x wow im struggling

Answer 13

well actually your equation was exactly the same i think. just more work to solve and rather convoluted for this basic problem

Answer 14

hahah yes I agree

Answer 15

subtract x, get
\[.11x=4000\] etc