Find last year's salary if after a 4% raise, this year's salary is $44,200.

alright this is what I did:

x *.04 = 44,200/.04

=1105000

then

1105000 +.04 (1105000) and got a huge number that is completely wrong. I was following the example for this type of problem. l have no idea what I did or where I went wrong with this.

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12 April, 19:26

Find last year's salary if after a 4% raise, this year's salary is $44,200.

alright this is what I did:

x *.04 = 44,200/.04

=1105000

then

1105000 +.04 (1105000) and got a huge number that is completely wrong. I was following the example for this type of problem. l have no idea what I did or where I went wrong with this.

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Emilie Carson · Answer 1

You can try this way:

x - last year's salary, raise: 4% = 0.04 (100%+4% = 104% = 1.04)

x · 1.04 = 44,200

x = 44,200 : 1.04

x = 42,500

Last year's salary was $42,500.