Compute austin's total social security and medicare taxes for the fourth quarter, if she is self-employed and earns $5,000.00 on a semimonthly basis. (for self-employed persons, social security tax is 12.4% of wages up to $106,800, and medicare tax is 2.9% of all wages.)

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!