Question 830633
If you're now making $9.50/hr after two raises, what were you making last year?  $9.50 - 0.75 = $8.75
The year before that, you were making $8.75 - 0.75, or $8.00
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Putting this into an equation, with w as your starting wage:
9.50 -.75(n-1) = w
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The reason you use n-1 instead of n is because you get the raise AFTER the first year ["In year three, (after two raises..."]