SOLUTION: The amount of money that a salesperson makes varies as the total amount of sales made.If the sales person receives $7,500 for selling a house for $120,000 how much will he make if
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Question 31835: The amount of money that a salesperson makes varies as the total amount of sales made.If the sales person receives $7,500 for selling a house for $120,000 how much will he make if he sells a house for $ 150,000?
Found 2 solutions by checkley71, ikdeep:
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
7500/120000=x/15000 or120x=7500*15000 or 120000x=112500000 or x=9375
Answer by ikdeep(226) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can also find solution to this problem through percentage system...and is goes like this
now Let sales person percentage commission on selling a house = x%
and acoording to question ,,i.e. sales person receives $7,500 for selling a house for $120,000 ...we have get the equation..
(7,500/120,000) * 100 = x
on solving it we get
x = 6.25%
Now to calculate his commission on selling house of $150,000 = 150,000 * 6.25%
= $9,375
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