Question

Gabriella works at a shoe store. For each sale, she earns a commission of $25. She also receives a base salary of $450 per week. If she earned $1,325 last week, how many shoes did she sell?

Answer 1

Set up the equation:
Let the amount of shoes she sold be x. Then the equation becomes:
450 (base salary) + 25(x) (How much she earns) = 1325 (Final salary). Then solve for x.

Answer 2

Remove the base salary from the total:
1325 - 450 = 875
Now you know that 875$ came only from the comissions.