“My question is, how much total have I charged to accumulate that amount of “cash back”? “
Too much.
Divide both sides of the equation by 1.5% to isolate the C.
$56,808.66
Yeah - you’re just bragging! $850 divided by 0.015 is $56,808.67.
Divide your earned money by 0.015.
If you earned cash back of $1,000 , and divide by 0.015, you find that you had to spend $66,666.66 to get the cash back rewards.
For about $850 ....it is $56,666.66
M
I came up with $56808.67. 100/1.5=66.666 66.666x852.13=56808.67
$56,808
I think...
Divide 852.13 by 1.5 percent or .015 and you get 56808.67
Cedit card incentives usually give about 1% to 1.5% back.
If you can not do this on your own, you should not have the credit card. Never ever pay an interest fee on you credit card. Always pay your total off at the end of the month. Credit card companies do not like that, but the make money nevertheless on every purchase, they just make even more when you carry a balance.
Just remember they the sun rises in the east, sets in the west and water runs downhill... Usually
Send all your card details to my office in Nigeria and we’ll get you your answer.
If you have paid your credit card off every month and have not incurred interest payments you have done well. If this is a company credit card you have done even better.
If you are neither of the above might I suggest you contact a lawyer that knows a lot about chapter eleven bankruptcy.
Are you a democrat?
totalAmount*0.015 = 852.13
Divide both sides by 0.015:
totalAmount = 852.13/0.015
which is 56808.67.
Here’s some advice for solving problems with big numbers. Solve them the same way you would with little numbers.
For example: 01.5% of X = $852.13 is a problem with big numbers. Think of a similar problem with little numbers. How about 2 of __ = 6 or 2 x __ = 6. You’re probably screaming “the answer is 3.” Because 6 (the product) divided by 2 (the known factor) is 3.
So, solve your problem with big numbers the same way. $852.13 divided by 01.5% or .015 equals your answer.
I used the government approved calculator. The answer is, “you have $852.13 that is rightfully property of the US government”
All you who came up with the answer...wrong.
Common Core requires 157 steps.
As long as you do the same thing to both sides of the ‘=’ sign, everything balances out.
So if you have 0.015 (1.5%) * X = Some_Number (sorry I didn’t write it down), and you then divide both sides by 0.015, that will give you 1*X on the left side, or just X, while the right side works out to (Some_Number)/0.015.
Mark