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a salesperson receives a 5% commission on the sale of each house. the commission for a house is $690. What is the price of the house?

User Ben Tidman
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13,800

The reason is, 5% move the decimal 2 times to the left you get 0.05.

690 divided by 0.05 = 13,800

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