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1) Your beginning salary as an analyst in the HIM department is $12.50 per hour.

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Question

1) Your beginning salary as an analyst in the HIM department is $12.50 per hour. You are due to receive a 3.5 percent cost of living adjustment (raise) in your next paycheck. Your performance evaluation is coming up in one month and you believe you should receive an additional 4 percent increase based on your excellent performance. What should your hourly wage be next week and what do you anticipate it would be after receiving a performance increase?

2) Last year, the number of hospitals in your state decreased from 320 to 240. What is the percentage of decrease?Last year, you purchased equipment in the HIM department for $10, 250. You have been told that the equipment you bought has depreciate in value by 15 percent. What is the value of the equipment now?

Explanation / Answer

2) last year number of hospitals = 320

Decreases to 240

The difference is 320-340 = 80

The percentage of decrease is 80/340 = 1/4 *100 = 25 %