julian earns $13.50 per hour. His company deducts 23% of his pay each week for taxes. Julian uses the expression 0.77 ( 13.50h) to compute his earnings after taxes for the hours h he works. what will be his earnings after taxes, if he works 40 hour?
for this problem, all you have to do is plug 40 into the equation given. when we do this we get .77(13.50*40). this simplifies 415.8, so he earns, after working 40 hours, $415.80
If Julian works 40 hours per week and you would like to know what are his earnings after taxes, you can calculate this using the following steps:
per one hour: 0.77 (13.50 1h) = 0.77 * 13.50 = $10.395
per 40 hours: 0.77 * (13.50 * 40h) = 0.77 * 13.50 * 40 = $415.8
Result: His earnings after taxes will be $415.8.