Question 906283
if your profit is 30 cents on every dollars that you earn, then your profit is equal to .30 * the number of dollars that you earn.


your formula is therefore p = .30*x, where x is the number of dollars that you earn.


what you do is replace what you know in this equation and then solve for what you don't know.


since you know p = 2740, then replace p in the equation to get:


2740 = .30*x


now you want to solve for x, so you divide both sides of the eqution by .3 to get 2740 / .3 = x