Martha earned a gross pay of $1,215.60 last week. Using the fact that Social Security tax is 6.2% of gross pay, determine the amount of Social security tax deducted from Martha’s gross pay.
a.

$7.54
b.

$65.37
c.

$75.37
d.

$75.40

Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Question

Martha earned a gross pay of $1,215.60 last week. Using the fact that Social Security tax is 6.2% of gross pay, determine the amount of Social security tax deducted from Martha’s gross pay.
a.
	
$7.54
b.
	
$65.37
c.
	
$75.37
d.
	
$75.40

Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Trios · Answer

Martha is welathy

supie · Answer

You need to get the social security tax, 
I think you have to do $1215.60 * 0.062=?$
because it says `Social Security tax is 6.2% of gross pay`
So solve  $1215.60 * 0.062=?$ then you'll have your answer.

jhonyy9 · Answer

like a first step you need  calcule the 6,2% of $1215,60 
so for this you can use the rule of 3 simple and write in this way

1215,60 mean 100%
x mean 6,2% and now cross multiplie to calcule the x value

x = 6,2*1215,60/100 = ?

and so in this way will get the x value what will be the correct answer

hope helped understandably easy