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Using proportions, it is found that the weekly amounts are given as follows:
- Federal Withholding: $33
- Social Security Tax: $22.51.
- Medicare Tax: $10.53.
- State income tax: $134.31.
What is the missing information?
We have to determine for Lucretia these following weekly amounts:
- Federal Withholding.
- Social Security Tax.
- Medicare Tax.
- State income tax.
The rates are given as follows:
- Withholding allowance: $33 (for someone earning $363 a week).
- Medicare tax: 2.9%.
- Social Security: 6.2%.
- State tax: 37%, as she lives on a state with no tax, hence pays only the Federal rate.
What is a proportion?
A proportion is a fraction of a total amount, and the measures are related using a rule of three. Due to this, relations between variables, either direct(when both increase or both decrease) or inverse proportional(when one increases and the other decreases, or vice versa), can be built to find the desired measures in the problem, or equations to find these measures.
Lucretia's weekly salary is given as follows:
20 x 18.15 = $363.
The withholding allowance is fixed at $33 for a person earning her amount, while the tax rate is of 37%, as she lives in a state with no income tax, hence she only pays the federal tax rate.
The other amounts are given as follows:
- Medicare Tax: 0.029 x 363 = $10.53.
- Social Security Tax: 0.062 x 363 = $22.51.
- State tax: 0.37 x 363 = $134.31.
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