Question

Norma Jean makes $25 per hour. She works 35 hours per week. She gets a commission of 15% on her total sales. How much should Norma sell to make $4,500 in a single week?
Norma needs to make sales worth $ _____ to make $4,500.

Answer 1

Answer: $30,000

Norma gets paid 15% of what she sells

She wants to make 4500

4500/15 = 300 (gives us 1%)
300*100 = 30,000 (gives us 100%)

Answer 2

Answer:

$24,166.67

Step-by-step explanation:

Let carry out the breakdown:

So Norman Jean makes a flat rate of $25 per hour, also she works 35 hours per week.

From the above statement Jean will make => 25 × 35 = $875 in a single week without commission.

For Jean to make $4500 in a week, we derive an equation for this:

875 + x = 4500;

x is the amount of commission Jean has to get in a week to make up to $4500 in that week => x = 4500-875; x = $3625.

Let y be the amount of sales Jean has to make to get a commission of x, we derive the following equation: 0.15 × y = x.

y = x ÷ 0.15 => 3625 ÷ 0.15

y = 24166.67.

So for Jean to meet her target of $4500 in a single week, Jean needs to make a sale worth $24,166.67.