Question

Peyton is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She makes a base pay amount of $60 per day regardless of sales and she earns a commission of 2.5% of the dollar amount of all sales that she makes. Write an equation for P,P, in terms of x, representing Peyton's total pay on a day on which she sells xx dollars worth of computers.

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation: if Peytons base pay= $60 plus she earns commission on $x (computers sold)

P= $60+ (0.025x)

You would multiply by 0.025 as this equals 2.5%

Remember PEMDAS- parentheses, exponents, multiplications, division, addition, subtraction