SOLUTION: In order to entice people to work for them, a local used car lot advertises that it will pay a commission to its employees in the amount of 12% of the employees total sales for eac

Question 550594: In order to entice people to work for them, a local used car lot advertises that it will pay a commission to its employees in the amount of 12% of the employees total sales for each month.
1. How much in total sales would an employee have to sell in one month to earn $2700 in commission.
2. How much would an employee earn in commission if they sold $76,000 worth of used cars in one month?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(1)
Let = total sales for 1 month

The employee would have to make $22,500
in sales for the month
(2)

The commission is $9,120
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