A company gives raises once a year. Amir's present salary is $12,000. His manager would like to raise Amir's salary to $84,000. What percentage would Amir be receiving?

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18 August, 06:25

A company gives raises once a year. Amir's present salary is $12,000. His manager would like to raise Amir's salary to $84,000. What percentage would Amir be receiving?

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Madeleine Patrick · Answer 1

Since $12,000 would be her whole current salary, I would just divide $84,000 by $12,000 because i know 12 can go into 84 evenly.

84,000 : 12,000 = 7

Since it goes in to 84,000 evenly by 7 times, the raise would be 700%.