Question

Fifteen percent of an employee’s taxable income is collected each paycheck. Before taxes are removed from each paycheck, $350 of tax-exempt expenses is taken out. If the variable x represents the employee’s pay before tax-exempt expenses and taxes are removed, which expression represents the employee’s take-home pay after these deductions?

Answer 1

0.85(x-350)   is the correct answer on edgenuity

Answer 2

Thank you for asking this question. The options for this question are missing:

Here are the missing options:

A. 0.15(x-350)

B. x-0.15-350

C. 0.85(x-350)

D .x-0.85-350

Answer:

We will assume x as the pay which is before the exemption of expenses and the taxes.

And we know that $350 is the exemption of taxes.

So the income with the tax would be x - 350

and the 15% of that would be (15/100) (x - 350)  = 0.15 (x - 350)

Which means that the employee received around x - 350 - 0.15 (x - 350)

(x - 350) - 0.15(x - 350)

(x - 350) (1 - 0.15)

(x - 350)(0.85)

0.85 (x - 350)

So the answer is option c: 0.85(x-350)