Marcus has accepted a job selling cell phones. He will be paid $1500 plus 15% of his scales each month. He needs to earn at least $2430 to pay his bills. For what amount of sales will marcus be able to pay his bills?
Well, Marcus better get ready to be the "cell-ebrity" of cell phone sales! Let's find out how much he needs to sell.
To start, we'll subtract Marcus's guaranteed payment of $1500 from his total bills of $2430. That leaves us with $930, which Marcus needs to earn from his sales commission.
Since Marcus receives 15% of his sales, we can set up an equation to find the sales amount he needs:
0.15 * Sales = $930
Now, let's solve for the sales amount:
Sales = $930 / 0.15
Calculating this, we find that Marcus needs to make sales of $6,200 in order to pay his bills. Looks like he'll be ringing up quite a few cell phone sales to meet his goal!
To find out the amount of sales Marcus needs to pay his bills, we need to set up an equation using the given information.
Let's assume Marcus' monthly sales are represented by "x".
According to the given information:
Marcus will be paid $1500 plus 15% of his sales each month.
His total payment is at least $2430.
So, we can write the equation as:
Payment = $1500 + (15% of his sales)
Payment = $2430
Breaking it down further:
1500 + 0.15x = 2430
To solve for "x", we need to isolate it on one side of the equation. Let's do that step by step.
First, subtract $1500 from both sides of the equation:
1500 + 0.15x - 1500 = 2430 - 1500
This simplifies to:
0.15x = 930
Next, divide both sides of the equation by 0.15:
(0.15x) / 0.15 = 930 / 0.15
Simplifying further:
x = 6200
Therefore, Marcus needs to make at least $6200 in sales to cover his bills.