One health insurance policy pays people for claims by multiplying the claim amount by 0.8 and then subtracting $500. If a person receives a check for $4650,how much was the claim amount?

Mathematics · High School · Wed Jan 13 2021

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Given:

One health insurance policy pays people for claims by multiplying the claim amount by 0.8 and then subtracting $500.

Determine how much the clai if the person receives $4560.

Solution:

In order to determine how much the claim is we simply needed to multiply 4560 by 0.8. This is the same as taking 80 percent of the given value.

= ($4560)(0.8)

= $3648

Final answer:
= $3648

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