In Exercises 36–43, use the five-step strategy for solving word p...

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In Exercises 36–43, use the five-step strategy for solving word problems. An apartment complex has offered you a move-in special of 30% off the first month’s rent. If you pay $945 for the first month, what should you expect to pay for the second month when you must pay full price?

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Hello. Today we're going to go ahead and find the salary of a person. So the board problem here states that in a software company a person gets a joining bonus of 25% of his salary. If the person gets a total amount of 2145 as salary and a joining bonus together we need to find the salary of a person. So one thing to note here is that this value of 2,145 is the combination of the salary and joining bonus together. This is not the person's salary. So we don't know what this person's salary is going to be. So what we could do is go ahead and let the variable X represent a person's salary. Now we are told that the joining bonus is 25% of that salary. So the joining bonus could be represented as 0.25 times a person's salary X. And now we are told that this person has received a total of 2145. With both the joining bonus and salary combined. So what that means is that we're gonna go ahead and add 0.25 x Plus X. And we're gonna set that equal to 2145. And that'll help us figure out what this individual salary is going to be. So in order to figure out what X. Is we need to go ahead and add 0.25 X. To just X. Doing so is going to give me 1. X equal to 2145. Now, in order to solve for X, I'm gonna go ahead and divide both sides by 1.25. Doing so is going to give me x equal to 1716. And this is going to be our solution. That also means that the solution to this problem is going to be a So I hope this video helps you in understanding how to approach this type of word problem. And I'll go ahead and see you all in the next video.

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