simple word problem - percentage of salary

Question

"An employee receives a bonus at the end of each quarter based on her salary for the year. If she earns $1,800$ per month, and her bonus is $3.5$% of her yearly salary, her bonus for the previous quarter is...?"

Book says answer $756$. They get this by $12 \times 1800 = 21600$. Then $21600 \times 0.035 = 756$.

I don't understand the answer. It's my understanding that since her bonus for the year is $756$ shouldn't you divide $756$ by $4$ since the question asks for the bonus amount for the quarter?

Answer 1

When the question refers to her bonus it means her quarterly bonus, so their reasoning is correct. Her yearly bonus would be 14% of her salary paid in four installments of 756.

Answer 2

1800 per month means, 1800*12=21600 per year.

Now, 3.5% of 21600= 756.

If I try to align the answer that you have, I believe that the lady receives 756 towards bonus every quarter. Otherwise, the quarterly bonus will be 756/4=189. The question seems unclear and you need to cross check once again.