Question

A pediatric nurse earns $45 per hour in Washington State. Apediatric nurse earns $55 per hour in California. What percent of theWashington State nurse's pay did the California nurse earn? Roundyour answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Answer 1

In order to calculate the percent of one nurse over the other, we can divide both payments and then convert the result to a percentage value.

So we have:

$\frac{55}{45}=1.2222=122.22\text{\%}$

Therefore the California nurse earns 122.22% of the Washington State nurse's pay.