Answer:
$1951 dollars.
Explanation:
FICA taxes is the money taken from the employees in their paycheck to pay Social Security retirement and Medicare benefits. FICA is comprised by 6.2% of Social Security tax and 1.45% medicare tax, making a total of 7.65% in taxes
Asteria earned a 25,500 salary as an employee. We need to find out how much her employer withheld from her paycheck for FICA taxes. In other words, we need to calculate the 7.65% of 25,500 to know how much it was withheld from her in taxes.
To do this we can use a rule of three
25500 ---- 100%
x ------------- 7.65%
x = 25,500 (7.65)/100 = 1950.75 = 1951
Therefore, the amount withheld from her for FICA taxes was $1951 dollars.
