A job pays an annual salary of $57,900, which includes a holiday ...

Question

A job pays an annual salary of $57,900, which includes a holiday bonus of $1500. If paychecks are issued twice a month, what is the gross amount for each paycheck?

Accepted Answer

So this problem says that lawyer receives an annual allowance of 11,100 from her mother. This includes a $300 gift that she sees for her birthday and her allowance is given monthly. How much is Lori's monthly allowance? So let's go ahead and look at this problem here. We know that she gets a $300 gift every year for her birthday. That is a one time thing every year. So we have 300 plus something. Now we know her total allowance is 11,100. So I'll add 11,100 on the other son. So If we note that she gets 11,100 every year and 300 at once on her birthday every year I'm gonna go ahead and do 11100 -300. That gives me 10,800. So her monthly allowance is equivalent to 10,800 over the year. So I'll go ahead and rewrite this here. 10,800. And so now we want to figure out how much monthly allowance will she get every month? For a total of 10,800 per year. So it's down here You have 10,800. Now we know there are 12 months in a year. So I will say 12 and we'll do X. For the amount she gets every month. So let's go ahead and solve for X. go ahead and divide both sides by 12. We should get X. On this side and 10,800 divided by 12 which we put in our calculator is 900. I am. That Laurie gets $900 per month throughout the year. Which entire monthly allowance is answer C. Okay, help you solve the problem. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.

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