sam makes $400 per week plus $20 commission on each new cell phone plan she sells. Write an equation to determine how many plans she sold to earn $680 last week.
He makes 400, and an extra 20 for each plan. If the variable Y is how much she makes, and X is the number of plans, then
Y= 400 + 20X
Then you just substitute how much she makes for Y,
680= 400 + 20X
And solve for X.
Nadia earns a base salary of $300.00 every week with an additional 5% commission on everything she sells. If Nadia sold $6050.00 worth of items last week, what was her total pay?
14 plans
To write an equation to determine how many plans Sam sold to earn $680 last week, we need to consider her fixed weekly salary and the commission she earns per plan sold.
Let's say 'x' represents the number of plans Sam sold last week.
Since Sam makes a fixed amount of $400 per week, we can start by setting that as the base salary. But since Sam also earns a $20 commission on each plan sold, we need to add the commission earned from the plans.
To find the total amount Sam earned last week, we can set up the following equation:
Total earnings = Base salary + Commission earned
Total earnings = 400 + 20x
Now, we can set this equation equal to the amount Sam earned last week, which is $680:
400 + 20x = 680
This is the equation to determine how many plans Sam sold to earn $680 last week.