It has been estimated that a self employed person must earn 20% more than a non-self employed person performing the same task(s). tia earns $18 per hour for village copy. how much would tia need to earn on his own for a comparable income?

the book answer says ($19.20 per hour) how do you get this answer?

Let's look at this sentence:

a self employed person must earn 20% more than a non-self employed person

there the non-self employed person earns 18$ - it says so in the text. So we can rewrite


a self employed person must earn 20% more than 18

So, we need to find 20% more than 18.

First, what is 20% of 18?



we add this to 18: 18+3.6=20.6

This must be the correct answer. Maybe there are sone extra taxes that were not mentioned in the text?

This is an exponential decay question use the exponential regression function in a graphing calculator to find the approximate graph.