Question

a salesperson at a car dealership earns a monthly salary of $2400 and $250 for each vehicle sold. a. how many vehicles does the salesperson need to sell in a month to earn $4400?

Answer 1

8 vehicle.

Explanation:

Given: Monthly salary of salesperson is $2400

Incentive of salesperson is $250 per vehicle sold.

First, lets compute income to earned apart from salary.

∴ Deduct salary from the target amount

`\$ 4400-\$ 2400= \$ 2000`

∴ $2000 need to be earned only through incentive, which is $250 per vehicle sold.

Now, solving to get number vehicles to be sold to earn $2000 as incentive.

Number of vehicle=
`(2000)/(250)= 8\ vehicles`

∴ 8 vehicles need to be sold by salesperson to get total earning as $4400.