# salary increments

• August 12th 2009, 08:26 AM
Rose Wanjohi
salary increments
Ali has astarting salary of 5000dollars with annual increment of 350dollars , after how many years will his total earning be 265750 dollars(Cool)
• August 12th 2009, 09:07 AM
Amer
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Originally Posted by Rose Wanjohi
Ali has astarting salary of 5000dollars with annual increment of 350dollars , after how many years will his total earning be 265750 dollars(Cool)

the increment per month right ??

if the increment per month

$5000+m350=265750$ find m value m represent month numbers
• August 12th 2009, 09:38 AM
Rose Wanjohi
no thats not it the answer cannot be 63 years,it's meant to be 10years
• August 12th 2009, 09:43 AM
Wilmer
Can you be a bit CLEARER please;
after 3 years, is it 5000 + (5000+350) + (5000+700) ?
• August 12th 2009, 11:12 AM
Rose Wanjohi
guess we saling on the same boat of confusion huh? i got the question from a book,guess there was a mistake