SOLUTION: ruth is weighing two job offers from the sales departments of two competing companies. one offers a base salary of $25,000 plus 5% of gross sales; the other offers a base salary of
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Question 658669: ruth is weighing two job offers from the sales departments of two competing companies. one offers a base salary of $25,000 plus 5% of gross sales; the other offers a base salary of $20,000 plus 7% of gross sales. what would ruth's gross sales total need to be to make the second job offer more attractive than the other?
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
25000+0.05x=20000+0.07x
25000-20000=0.07x-0.05x
5000=0.02x
5000/0.02=x
x=$250,000 more than this
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