Step-by-step explanation:
Let's start by finding Sandra's salary this year.
We are given that she saved $3,360 or 8% of her total salary this year.
Let's represent her total salary this year as "x" and set up an equation:
Note that any percentage is equivalent to that number over 100.
Multiply 100 to both sides:
Divide both sides by 8
The question states "this year her salary was $2000 more than in the previous year".
This means that her salary in the previous year is equivalent to: