Question

Donna earns $1,404 per week at her job. However, 19% of her income gets taken out in taxes, and 12% of her income gets taken out and put into her retirement account. Which is a reasonable estimate of the amount Donna is left with each week after the money is deducted?

Answer 1

About 969 dollars

Explanation:

I kind of did it the long way. I divided $1,404 by 100 and multiplied by 19. Did the same thing with 12. Added the product of those together and subtracted from 1,404.

(1,404÷100)19 + (1,404÷100)12 = 435.24

1,404 - 435.24 = 968.76

Since it was an estimate I rounded it to the nearest whole number and got 969

Hope this helps. There are probably better methods to solve this problem but this was my way.