A car salesman receives 8.5% commission on each new car sale. If he sells a car for $23,590, how much will he receive in commission?
2 Answers
Jan 30, 2018
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
We can write this question as:
What is 8.5% of $23,590?
"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 8.5% can be written as
When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".
Finally, lets call the commission amount we are looking for "c".
Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for
The salesperson would receive $2,005.15 in commission.
Jan 30, 2018
Explanation:
#8.5%=8.5/100=0.085#
#rArr"commission "=0.085xx$23590=$2005.15#
