Your wage is increased by 20%, then the new amount is cut by 20% (of the new amount).

1) will this result in a wage, which is higher
than, lower than, or the same as the original
wage?

2) what percent of the original wage is this
final wage?

3). if the above steps were reversed (20% cut
followed by 20% increase), the final wage
would be what percent of the original wage?

The line containing the midpoints of the legs of right triangle abc where a(-5,5), b(1, 1), and c(3, 4) are the vertices.

Solve with work both bert and ernie received an increase in their weekly salaries. bert's salary increased from $520 to $520. ernie's salary went from $580 to $645. find the percent of increase for each salary. what was the larger of the two percents ?

Since opening night, attendance at play a has increased steadily, while attendance at play b first rose and then fell. equations modeling the daily attendance y at each play are shown below, where x is the number of days since opening night. on what day(s) was the attendance the same at both plays? what was the attendance? play a: y = 8x + 191 play b: y = -x^2 + 26x + 126