Question 15: Mia's Art Sales
MA.912.A.3.5
- Symbolically represent and solve multi-step and real-world applications that involve linear equations and inequalities.
Algebra 1 EOC Study Guide. How many can you solve correctly?
The answer is 675.
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We know that the answer is going to be related to her actual sales,not her salary,so we go ahead and subtract her base salary(300 dollars)from her salary for this week 327-300=27.Now we use the fact that 27 dollars is the 4 percent commission.We must answer the question 27 is 4 percent of what?As you probably already know,4%(commission)/100%(the total)=1/25 of the sales were the commission and commission(27) x 25 is the answer to 27 is 4% of what.That means to get the total we must multiply by 25.27 x 25=675 dollars is the answer.