Sandra saves 8% of her salary for retirement. This year her salary was $2,000 more than in the previous year, and she saved $3,360. What was her salary in the previous year?

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's start by finding Sandra's salary this year.

We are given that she saved $3,360 or 8% of her total salary this year.

Let's represent her total salary this year as "x" and set up an equation:

Note that any percentage is equivalent to that number over 100.

Multiply 100 to both sides:

Divide both sides by 8

The question states "this year her salary was $2000 more than in the previous year".

This means that her salary in the previous year is equivalent to:

answer: the 4 kilogram bag

step-by-step explanation: this is because if you divide the number of kilograms into the total it will tell you how much each individual kilogram would be worth. 2 kilos is 7 and change 3 would be around 6 ish and the 4 kilo would be 4.6 and change and the 5 kilos would be like 4.88