Anita works a part-time job where she makes $9.45 per hour. Anita's gross pay for the current pay period is $238.61. Her deductions include $28.63 for federal taxes, $14.79 for Social Security, $3.46 for Medicare, and $10.14 for state taxes. Using the information above and what you know about FICA, answer the following questions:

1.) How many hours did Anita work and what was her net pay?

2.) Anita works 31 hours next week. What is her gross pay, total amount of deductions, and net pay, assuming the same percentage is taken out for each of her deductions during the next pay period?

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step-by-step explanation:

irst, find the z score of a score of 80. this is given by the formula z = (x-u)/o, where x is the score, u is the mean, and o is the standard deviation. this gives

z = (80-78)/12 = 1/6 = .1667

now, find what percentile a z score of 1/6 correlates to in the normal distribution.

a z score of 1/6 = .1667 is equivalent to the 56.36th percentile of the distribution. so the probability a score is over this is 1-.5636 = .4364

the mean of a sample mean is equal to the original mean. however, the standard deviation of a sample mean is equal to the original standard deviation divided by the square root of n (sample size). so the new standard deviation is 12/sqrt(16) = 3.

the new z score is 80-78/3 = 2/3 = .667. this is equivalent to the 74.86th percentile. so the probability that the mean will be greater than this score is 1-.7486 = .2514.