Question

A car salesperson earns $800 per month plus a %5 commission on the amount of sales. He needs to earn a minimum of $4000 a month to pay his bills and live comfortably. What amount of sales willl enable him to earn 4K or more A month?

Can you tell me basically how to do it without giving the answer? I wanna learn how to do this type of problem instead of cheating on homework

Answer 1

you could set up the equation first. and from there, you could solve how much he earns per month

Answer 2

I don't know how to set up this equation.

Answer 3

800x+5x=4000?

Answer 4

Ah i see, ok 800+0.05<4000

Answer 5

Alright

Answer 6

Oh because its greater than or equal to 4000

Answer 7

Yeah because of the other 800

Answer 8

There's no sense in leaving incorrect information on here. I'm going to re-post the correct info:

Re-constructed sentence:

A car salesperson earns $800 per month plus a %5 commission on total sales, but needs to make a minimum of $4000 in total earnings to pay his bills:

Equation:

800 + .05x ≥ 4000

Answer 9

x = amount of sales in dollars