Petra's employer offers an annual pension benefit calculated by multiplying 2.46% of the career average salary times the number of years employed. Here are Petra's annual salaries over the last 16 years of employment:
54,000 54, 000 55,100 55,800 55, 800 56,200 56,400 57,000 60,000 61,000 61, 000 61,000 61,700 62,000 63,000 63,500
a. What is Petra's career average salary?
b. What is Petra's annual pension under this plan?
c. What percentage of her final annual salary will her annual retirement salary be?
d. What is Petra's monthly pension benefit?