As an incentive to sell more clothing, each clerk at the sporting goods store is given a 5% commission on their sales each month on top of their hourly wage. How much commission will an employee earn if they sell $3500 worth of clothes?
1 Answer
Jan 23, 2018
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
We can rewrite this question as:
What is 5% of $3500?
"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 5% can be written as
When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".
Finally, lets call the amount of the commission we are looking for "c".
Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for
