Question

How do I solve this?
You are offered two different sales jobs. The first company offers a straight commission of 2% of the sales. The second company offers a salary of $ 220 per week plus 1% of the sales. How much would you have to sell in a week in order for the straight commission offer to be at least as good?

Answer 1

Your offers can be put into mathematical form. If x = sales, then the first offer is 2% of sales or 0.02x. The second offer is a salary of 220 plus 1% of sales. How would you write that in mathematical form?

Answer 2

would it be 220+0.01x?

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

yes. Now you want to know what would x have to be for both offers to be the smae. You can find that by setting offer 1 = offer 2 and solving for x.

Answer 5

*same

Answer 6

so would that look like this?
0.02x+0=220+0.01x

Answer 7

0.02x+0>220+0.01x

Answer 8

yes @seattle12345. so solve for x.

Answer 9

ok got it. thank you so much!

Answer 10

you're welcome so much