Question

Sammy is a sales clerk in a bicycle shop. He's paid $4.25/hour for a 38.5 hour week, plus a commission of 9% of his sales for the week. In one week Sammy's sales were $2519. Calculate Sammy's total earnings for the week. Show work and round your final answer to the nearest cent.

Answer 1

total earnings for the week = basic earnings + commission
= 4.25 * 38.5 + (9 * 2519 ) / 100

Answer 2

$390.335 this right?

Answer 3

hold on

Answer 4

Ok

Answer 5

yea
so what is that to the nearest cent?

Answer 6

I am not sure lol.

Answer 7

well 100 cents to the dollar.

so the second place of decimals is unit cents.
So you need to round 390.335 to the second place of decimals

Answer 8

an example of rounding would be
$23.325 = $23.33 to nearest cent

the 44rd place decimal is 5 or greater so you round the 2 up to 3

Answer 9

@TylerMckinney16 You MUST do better. You showed how to calculate one thing in a different problem. Since then, you have waited for others to do all the calculation for you. You need to do better than that. Learning won't take place if you don't do the work.

Answer 10

* the 3rd place decimnal NOT 44th lol!!

Answer 11

Lol ok hold on ill do it.

Answer 12

That's the spirit.

Answer 13

gotta go

Answer 14

390.34 hows this?

Answer 15

:-) 5/4 rounding does, indeed, result in $390.34

Answer 16

So $390.34 is the answer?

Answer 17

@tkhunny

Answer 18

Asked and answered. Part of success in mathematics is knowing when you are done.