Odd little math question

[Amicale]

OK, so I'll preface this by saying I suck at math. Partly because it just downright confuses me   and partly because I have dyscalculia, so I get numbers hopelessly mixed up when I see them/read them, and always have. That being said, sometimes I try to figure out the odd math problem. And I'm trying to figure one out now.

Say for the sake of argument, someone works 5 days a week, and makes $85 every 3 days they work. How could you figure out how much that person will make in a year, assuming that they don't get any raises, and don't make any less than that? I've tried to figure it out, but I'm getting numbers that either look too high or too low each time I try... so, I thought I'd ask the smart people.  

Here's what I did. Tell me if I'm wrong, please?

$85 every 3 days = $28.33 a day. $28.33 x 5 (for 5 days in a week) is $141.65 per week. 52 weeks in a year = 52 x $141.65 = $7,365.80 per year?

[Tank]

That looks fine to me.

[Amicale]

That looks fine to me.

Yay, a smart people answered!   Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure. The 8's and 3's I often get switched in my head, same for the 2's and 5's.

[Siz]

That looks fine to me.

Yay, a smart people answered!   Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure. The 8's and 3's I often get switched in my head, same for the 2's and 5's.

Don't forget to subtract 'breathing tax' (or is that just the UK?)

How funny. 7's and 9's are the little imps that keep swapping places for me. I always suspected I suffered a small level of discalcwotsit, even though maths is one of my strengths. Have you ever seen anyone about it? Or had it officially diagnosed?

[Asmodean]

If you have unpaid holiday weeks or some such, remember to substract that too.

[Tom62]

If you have unpaid holiday weeks or some such, remember to substract that too.

You can however add the vacation pay.

[Guardian85]

$85 every 3 days = $28.33 a day. $28.33 x 5 (for 5 days in a week) is $141.65 per week. 52 weeks in a year = 52 x $141.65 = $7,365.80 per year?

Now my head hurts...

[Ali]

I think I may have that dyscalculia thingy too.  I'm hopeless at math (although I can write a mean spreadsheet - as long as I don't have to actually do the math myself).  I'm great at figuring out formulas, I just can't keep all of the actual numbers straight in my head.  If it's not written down, I'm toast.

[Amicale]

That looks fine to me.

Yay, a smart people answered!   Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure. The 8's and 3's I often get switched in my head, same for the 2's and 5's.

Don't forget to subtract 'breathing tax' (or is that just the UK?)

How funny. 7's and 9's are the little imps that keep swapping places for me. I always suspected I suffered a small level of discalcwotsit, even though maths is one of my strengths. Have you ever seen anyone about it? Or had it officially diagnosed?

7's and 1's also mess me up. 2's and 5's, 3's and 8's, 6's and 9's, and often 0's with 8's. As a kid, I wasn't diagnosed at all, my teacher just figured I was hopeless at math and ignored me. Same went for highschool, my teacher politely suggested I just take a personal finance class as I was a 'dunce' at anything else  and left it at that. Finally in the first year of college, I got sick of numbers frustrating me so much and I heard the term dyscalculia. I marched into a guidance office, told them the issues I was having, and got sent to someone who determined I did indeed have it. I was taught some tricks, like writing some numbers bigger than others, or writing them in different colours. That sometimes still helps.

[xSilverPhinx]

That looks fine to me.

Yay, a smart people answered!  Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure. The 8's and 3's I often get switched in my head, same for the 2's and 5's.

Don't forget to subtract 'breathing tax' (or is that just the UK?)

How funny. 7's and 9's are the little imps that keep swapping places for me. I always suspected I suffered a small level of discalcwotsit, even though maths is one of my strengths. Have you ever seen anyone about it? Or had it officially diagnosed?

7's and 1's also mess me up. 2's and 5's, 3's and 8's, 6's and 9's, and often 0's with 8's. As a kid, I wasn't diagnosed at all, my teacher just figured I was hopeless at math and ignored me. Same went for highschool, my teacher politely suggested I just take a personal finance class as I was a 'dunce' at anything else  and left it at that. Finally in the first year of college, I got sick of numbers frustrating me so much and I heard the term dyscalculia. I marched into a guidance office, told them the issues I was having, and got sent to someone who determined I did indeed have it. I was taught some tricks, like writing some numbers bigger than others, or writing them in different colours. That sometimes still helps.

Not too sound too curious, but do you also have dyslexia (switching letters and stuff)?

I simply don't get maths, but I don't know if it's anything like dyscalculia. My sister on the other hand, has some real problems conceptualizing negative numbers on the number scale, which is kinda of odd considering she's gone up to pre high school maths and is now in college.

[Amicale]

That looks fine to me.

Yay, a smart people answered!  Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure. The 8's and 3's I often get switched in my head, same for the 2's and 5's.

Don't forget to subtract 'breathing tax' (or is that just the UK?)

How funny. 7's and 9's are the little imps that keep swapping places for me. I always suspected I suffered a small level of discalcwotsit, even though maths is one of my strengths. Have you ever seen anyone about it? Or had it officially diagnosed?

7's and 1's also mess me up. 2's and 5's, 3's and 8's, 6's and 9's, and often 0's with 8's. As a kid, I wasn't diagnosed at all, my teacher just figured I was hopeless at math and ignored me. Same went for highschool, my teacher politely suggested I just take a personal finance class as I was a 'dunce' at anything else  and left it at that. Finally in the first year of college, I got sick of numbers frustrating me so much and I heard the term dyscalculia. I marched into a guidance office, told them the issues I was having, and got sent to someone who determined I did indeed have it. I was taught some tricks, like writing some numbers bigger than others, or writing them in different colours. That sometimes still helps.

Not too sound too curious, but do you also have dyslexia (switching letters and stuff)?

I simply don't get maths, but I don't know if it's anything like dyscalculia. My sister on the other hand, has some real problems conceptualizing negative numbers on the number scale, which is kinda of odd considering she's gone up to pre high school maths and is now in college.

Nope, I don't have dyslexia. If anything, I inhale or devour books. The same can't be said for math though -- like you, I don't "get it", and that really has nothing to do with my number issues. I just don't understand it. It's always frustrated me. I understand that it has value, and I do have to use basic math day to day just like we all do, but it was always my least favourite subject. It probably didn't help that I just gave up, and started hiding history books inside my math text. 

Here's a real puzzle for you: one of my best friends is a math teacher, and she's wonderful at it -- she loves calculus, trig, geometry, prettymuch anything. She could talk about numbers for hours without getting bored... so, you'd think she'd have wonderful spatial sense, as well, since the two go together often. Not so. She's hopelessly directionally challenged, and has one heck of a time distinguishing her left from her right, even. She's never understood how she can be that way, but she is. So, maybe that's something like the issue your sister has -- they're both smart people, they can do the work in math, but one certain thing trips them up.