SOLUTION: A shoe salesman is paid the greater of $600 per week or 11% of sales. A) What are his earnings for a week in which sales are $5636? B) At what volume of sales per week will h

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Question 1201063: A shoe salesman is paid the greater of $600 per week or 11% of sales.
A) What are his earnings for a week in which sales are $5636?
B) At what volume of sales per week will he start to earn more from the
commission based compensation?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x amount of sales,
or

Depending on which is larger

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A) What are his earnings for a week in which sales are $5636?
B) At what volume of sales per week will he start to earn more from the
commission based compensation?
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A:
------------He is paid this amount.

B:


------------and not a penny less.

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