Your take home pay is $1500 and you have 22% withheld in taxes. what is your gross pay?

We have been given that the take home pay is $1500 and 22% is withheld as taxes.

Let us assume that the gross pay is x dollars. Therefore, take home pay must be 78% of x because 22% of the pay is withheld as taxes, so you get to take home only 78% of the gross pay.

Since we have been given that take home pay is $1500 and it is 78% of the total gross pay. Therefore, we can set up an equation:

Therefore, gross pay is $1923.08

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the irrational number that can be multiplied by -√41 to get a product that equals 1.

Solve for x, by dividing through with -√41

This gives us:

This is the same as:

Or

Therefore the irrational number is