Question

Vanessa earns a base salary of $400 every week with an additional 5% commission on everything she sells. Vanessa sold $1850 worth of items last week. What was Vanessa‘s total pay last week?

Answer 1

Answer:

$492.50

Step-by-step explanation:

To start off, we already know that Vanessa makes at least $400 every week. What we don't know is how much Vanessa makes from her 5% commission on what she sells.

To solve for that, we need to find what 5% of $1,850 is. This can be done by multiplying $1,850 by 5%. Remember, we need to change 5% into its decimal form (5% -> $\frac{5}{100}$ -> 0.05).

$1,850 x 0.05 = $92.5

This means that Vanessa made $92.5 off of commissions last week. The last step is to add her base salary of $400 to her commission sales and we get our final answer.

$400 + $92.5 = $492.50

Vanessa's total pay last week was $492.50