SOLUTION: i hope this is the right place to put this question. max is working at mcdonalds and gets paid 7.00 dollars per hour. If he gets a 20% raise what is his new hourly rate? So th

Question 242698: i hope this is the right place to put this question.
max is working at mcdonalds and gets paid 7.00 dollars per hour. If he gets a 20% raise what is his new hourly rate?
So the problem im having with it is of course i cant find the number and im supposed to find the fraction i would multiply by. help??
thank you
Found 2 solutions by unlockmath, solver91311:
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
There are two ways to do this problem. First off 20% can be written as .2 or 1/5. It's easier to multiply by .2, so it would look like this:
.2 times $7.00 = $1.40 therefore he'll get:
$8.40 per hour
If you were to use the fraction it would look like this:
1/5 times 7.00 will be:
7/5 Since the bar in the fraction means "divided by" we do:
7 divided by 5 = 1.4 or $1.40
RJ Toftness
www.math-unlock.com
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

He gets what he was getting before (100% = 1.00) plus 20% of what he was getting before. "of" means multiply, so 20% (and 20% = .20) of what he was getting before is 0.20 X 7.00.

You can do this one of two ways, multiply 0.20 times 7.00 and then add the result to 7.00

Or you can multiply 1.20 (which is 1.00 plus 0.20) times 7.00.

Comes out the same either way.

John

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