Joel has been offered sales positions at two different companies. AlphaCo offers an annual salary of $65, 000. OmegaCo offers an annual salary of $42, 500 plus a 3% commission on sales.
Which inequality should Joel use to determine what his sales, s, need to be in order to earn a greater salary at OmegaCo than he would at AlphaCo?
To determine what his sales need to be in order to earn a greater salary at OmegaCo than at AlphaCo, Joel should use the following inequality:
$42,500 + 0.03s > $65,000
where s represents Joel's sales.