SOLUTION: Your salary is $1250 per week and you receive a 5% commission on your sales each week. What are the possible amounts (in dollars) that you can sell each week to earn at least $1500

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Question 342797: Your salary is $1250 per week and you receive a 5% commission on your sales each week. What are the possible amounts (in dollars) that you can sell each week to earn at least $1500 per week?
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
Let's have x be the amount of sales each week.Now we can set up this equation as:
1250 + .05x >= 1500
Subtract 1250 from both sides to get:
.05x >= 250
Now divide both sides by .05 to result in:
x >= 5000
So the possible amount of sales would be $5000 or more to get at least $1500.
Make sense?
RJ
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