Problem: at a certain company , each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5 . each employee receives an hourly wage p , in dollars , determined by the formula p = 9.50 + 0.25 ( s – 1 ) . an employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 3 ?
Rationale: "salary grade of 5 is p ( 5 ) = 9.50 + 0.25 ( 5 – 1 ) = 9.50 + 0.25 * 4 ; salary grade of 3 is p ( 3 ) = 9.50 + 0.25 ( 3 – 1 ) = 9.50 + 0.25 * 2 ; p ( 5 ) - p ( 3 ) = 9.50 + 0.25 * 4 - 9.50 - 0.25 * 2 = 0.5 . answer : a ."
annotated_formula: add(multiply(0.25, subtract(5, 1)), 0.25)