SOLUTION: Mr. Salinas, a real estate agent, received a 5% commission on the selling price of a house. If his commission was $6975, what was the selling price of the house?
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Question 836606: Mr. Salinas, a real estate agent, received a 5% commission on the selling price of a house. If his commission was $6975, what was the selling price of the house?
please help me form the equation to solve it please!!! Thank you Answer by doodles(24) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Well first of all we need to look at the general equation. So we know that the selling price of the house * 5% = commission earned.
Ultimately, if we to write as a math equation it would be:
then we solve for x... so:
Thus giving us our answer: 139500
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