Question

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Clarissa works in sales for a software company. Her pay each month varies since each month she receives base pay of $2,400.00 plus 8% commission on her sales. During the month of November, Clarissa had $18,000.00 in sales. For the month of November, % of Clarissa's pay was from her commission.

Answer 1

Can someone explain too? thanks

Answer 2

state clearly your question? as i can see there is no question stated in your post

Answer 3

oh its for the month of november what percentage of clarrisas pay was from her commission ad sorry

Answer 4

first let's decompose that to something we can understand
she receives a base pay of 2400 with 8% of the sales commission
that would be 2400+0.08x where x represents the sales she makes

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

for november we know that she made 18000$ sales
so we going to find first her commission percentage by multiplying that by 0.08

Answer 7

0.08*18000

Answer 8

let's how much she get

Answer 9

ok so its 1440?

Answer 10

no hold on a second i forgot one thing

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

first she get paid all the time 2400

Answer 13

so we must subtract 2400 from 18000 first

Answer 14

oh ok thanks

Answer 15

then the result see what is 8% of it

Answer 16

got it

Answer 17

so its 1248

Answer 18

see what is 8% of that

Answer 19

hmm wait what's 1248

Answer 20

you have 15600
we need to find out what is 8% of it

Answer 21

yes it appears you got the correct answer

Answer 22

ya 1248 is 8% of 15600 right?

Answer 23

Ok excellent

Answer 24

thanks so much!!!!

Answer 25

Welcome!
the way you wrote the problem is confusing lol
to avoid that attach the problem

Answer 26

the accuracy is very important

Answer 27

37.5%