Mr. Thompson has an annual income of $24,000 he budgets 19% for housing and 21.5% for food how much does he plan to spend on both food and housing?

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Thalia Vega

11 April, 05:39

Mr. Thompson has an annual income of $24,000 he budgets 19% for housing and 21.5% for food how much does he plan to spend on both food and housing?

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Molly Odonnell · Answer 1

Total percentage allocated to food and housing is 19 + 21.5 = 40.5%

Annual income = $24000

Therefore: On food and housing, he plans to spend 40.5% of 24000

= 0.405 * 24000

= $9720

Adison Maynard · Answer 2

24,000x19/100 = answer 1

24,000x21.5/100 = answer 2

Answer 1+answer 2 = complete answer