Question

Harper is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She makes a base pay amount of $100 per day regardless of sales and she earns a commission of 1% of the dollar amount of all sales that she makes. Write an equation for P,P, in terms of x,x, representing Harper's total pay on a day on which she sells xx dollars worth of computers.

Answer 1

Given:

Base pay = $100 per day

Commission = 1% of the dollar amount of all sales that she makes

To find:

The equation representing Harper's total pay on a day.

Solution:

Let P be the Harper's total pay on a day if she sells x dollars worth of computers.

Commission on x dollars sales = 1% of x = 0.01x

Total pay = Base pay + Commission

$P=100+0.01x$

Therefore, the required equation is $P=100+0.01x$.