An employee’s new salary is $16,275 after getting a 5% raise. what was the salary before the increase in pay?

$15,500

Step-by-step explanation:

Let s represent the initial salary.  That salary, plus a 5% raise, comes out to 1.05s = $16,275.

Solve for s by dividing both sides by 1.05:

s = $16,275 / 1.05 = $15,500.

The original salary was $15,500.

You have to write two equation:
'substract 22 from a number'

and:
'the result is doubled, the answer is 6 more than the original number'


then you change 'Y' in 2nd equation for left side of 1st equation:

count it and you get:

This means that X=50
The original number is 50.