You received a score of 3.4 on your annual review. merit increases are given out starting at .5% at a score of 2.6 and it goes up 1% every .4 points."

The merit increase will be 2.5%

Step-by-step explanation:

The score received for annual review is 3.4 and the merit increases are starting at 0.5% at a score of 2.6 and goes up 1% every 0.4 points.

Now, subtracting

And this is exactly 2 times of 0.4 points.

Hence, the merit increase will be 0.5%+1%+1%=2.5%