Question

Marsha Green makes $6.19 an hour. Find her social security tax at the rate of 7.65% for her 40 hour work week. (Work shown would be greatly appreciated)

Answer 1

ok she makes $6.19 and hour and she works 40 hours a week.
so we mulitply those numbers... what do you get?
(btw there is still more to the problem)

Answer 2

247.60

Answer 3

correct. $6.19 * 40 = 247.6
ok,
now we need to turn 7.65% into a number that is not a percentage.
so,
7.65% is the same as 0.0765

to find out what 7.65% of $247.6 is we need to muliply:
0.0765 * 247.6 = ?

what does that equal?

Answer 4

18.9414

Answer 5

ok now round that to the nearest tenth since it is in dollars.

Answer 6

i mean hundreth

Answer 7

$18.94?

Answer 8

round it to the nearest hundreth

Answer 9

yes!

Answer 10

Thank you!:}

Answer 11

$18.94 is 7.65% of her weekly $247.60
so $18.94 is her social security tax.
welcome :)

Answer 12

Got it!(: Thanks again. :3