SOLUTION: An employee's new salary is $26355 after a 5% raise. How much was the employee's original salary?
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Question 45532: An employee's new salary is $26355 after a 5% raise. How much was the employee's original salary?
Found 2 solutions by adamchapman, Nate:
Answer by adamchapman(301) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The new sallary is all (100%) of the old salary, plus 5% of the old salary.:
where S represents the old salary.
I hope this helps.
Adam
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Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
26355 + 0.05(26355)
26355(1.05) = 27672.75
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