SOLUTION: a person earns a base salary of $2000 per month. if she earns commission of 2.5% after the first $20000 in sales and she makes $3500 for the month , how much did she make in sales?

Question 1067267: a person earns a base salary of $2000 per month. if she earns commission of 2.5% after the first $20000 in sales and she makes $3500 for the month , how much did she make in sales?
Answer by swincher4391(1107) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So I'm assuming that the amount that one makes for the month is their base + commission.
So, we know that they make 2000 in the month, which means they have to make 1500 in commission.
Let x be how much she made in sales.
Then x-20000 is how much she made above 20000 that was actually subject to the commission.
so 1500 = .025* (x- 20000)

x = 80000
So she made 80000 in sales.

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