Question

Janice earns a 10% bonus based oh her annual salary plus the number of sales she makes. She made 250 sales and earned a 5,000 bonus last year. Write and solve an equation to find her salary last year.

Answer 1

Answer: her salary last year was $47500

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent her annual salary.

Janice earns a 10% bonus based oh her annual salary plus the number of sales she makes. It means that the expression for total bonus that she would earn from an annual salary of $x and sales worth $y would be

0.1x + y

She made 250 sales and earned a 5,000 bonus last year. The equation becomes

0.1x + 250 = 5000

0.1x = 5000 - 250

0.1x = 4750

x = 4750/0.1

x = $47500