SOLUTION: Harold is a salesperson in a retail store and earns $48 per week plus 12% of his weekly sales. If Harold made $600 one week, what were his sales that week?

Question 1155814: Harold is a salesperson in a retail store and earns $48 per week plus 12% of his weekly sales. If Harold made $600 one week, what were his sales that week?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let x be his weekly sales.  Then you have this equation to find the unknown value of x


    600 = 48 + 0.12x.


It implies


    x =  = 4600.    ANSWER

Solved.

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