a sales person earns $200 per week plus a commision equal to 4% of her sales. This week her goal is to earn no less than $450. write and solve an inequality to find the amount of sales she must have to reach her goal.

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Question

a sales person earns $200 per week plus a commision equal to 4% of her sales. This week her goal is to earn no less than $450. write and solve an inequality to find the amount of sales she must have to reach her goal.

please show all work

campbell_st · Answer

to earn $450 min you need 

$200 pay and $250 in commission 

so let x be the weekly sales

then the commission is 

$$250 = \frac{4}{100} \times x $$

just solve for x