Question

The Bs are planning on selling their home. If they want to be left with $117,500 after paying 6% of the selling price to a delator as a commission, for how much must they sell their home?

Answer 1

if you call the selling price x
and take off 6% of x
x- 0.06x = 117500
you are left with 117500

we can simplify x-0.06x by "factoring out x" to get x(1-0.06)
and 1-0.06 is 0.94
thus
0.94 x = 117500
I would divide both sides by 0.94 to find x