Question

i need help!!!
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Answer 1

Well, if she sells $12,500 worth of furnitture, then she has made 15% of this money.

Tell me what is 15% of 12,500?

Answer 2

1.875

Answer 3

yes, 15% of 12,500 is 1,875!

Answer 4

yay

Answer 5

You know that she needs to make $5000.

And we know that she sold 12,500 worth of furniture, and being that she makes 15% commissions from furniture, we know she has made 15% of 12,500 - OR, she made 1,857 off furniture.

So, if she needs to make 5,000, and has already made 1,875,
then she needs 5000-1875=3125 dollars left, right?

Answer 6

We also know that she makes 10% commissions off rugs. However, we don't know how many rugs she is going to sell.

Answer 7

ok

Answer 8

Let "x" be the price of all runs that she is going to sell.

Answer 9

what i need to do next

Answer 10

We need to have "x" as large as that 10% of x is equal to 3,125...

Answer 11

because we need these 3,125 dollars, to make $5000 overall.

Answer 12

So, the question you need to answer is,

10% of what number (x) is equivalent to 3125?

Answer 13

is it c?

Answer 14

Yes, fabulous!

Answer 15

thank you!:)

Answer 16

If, 10% of x is 3125, then we know that x is 10 times greater.
(with no need to go into percentage calculations, which even they are simple enough)

Answer 17

You welcome!