SOLUTION: Doug is a salesperson in a retail person store and earns $68 per week plus 17% of his weekly sales. If Doug made $578 one week, what were his sales that week?
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Question 702197: Doug is a salesperson in a retail person store and earns $68 per week plus 17% of his weekly sales. If Doug made $578 one week, what were his sales that week?
Please explain how to solve this problem. Thank you.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The process to solve,
Let p = amount of sales in that week.
Doug made $578, which was the sum of his 17% of sales and his normal $68.
Doug's $578 is 0.17 multiplied by p, and then add $68.
You can translate that into an equation, and then solve for p.
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