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Brenda has an associate’s degree earning the median salary. She wants to quit working and go to college to get just a basic bachelor’s degree. If she completes her degree in 2 years and it costs $15,000, how long will it take her to recover her investment assuming that she earns the median salary?

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  1. Given that Brenda wants to recover her investment, we can say that it would take her almost 2 years to get her median salary.

    How to solve for the median salary

    We have the total costs to be $15000
    then the number of years that it would take to get the degree is 2 years.
    In order to get the median salary we would have to carry out a division
    =  2×$45,258 +15,000 = $105,516
    then  $63,292 -45,258 = $18,034
    $105,516/($18,034 = 5.85
    2 + 5.85 = 7.85
    This can be approximated to almost 8 years
    Hence the median salary that we have here is almost 8 years
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    Complete question
    Brenda has an associate’s degree earning the median salary. She wants to quit working and go to college to get just a basic bachelor’s degree. If she completes her degree in 2 years and it costs $15,000, how long will it take her to recover her investment assuming that she earns the median salary? A graph titled Median Annual Household Income by Educational Attainment of Householder, 1997. Professional degree, 92,228 dollars; doctorate degree, 87,232 dollars; master’s degree, 68,115 dollars; Bachelor’s degree or more, 63,292 dollars; Bachelor’s degree, 59,048 dollars; associate degree, 45,258 dollars; some college, no degree, 40,015 dollars; high school graduate, 33,779 dollars; ninth to twelfth grade, 19,851 dollars; than twelfth grade, 15,541 dollars. a. almost 6 years b. almost 7 years c. almost 8 years d. almost 9 years

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