Question

ben earns a base salary of $400.00 every week with an additional 11% commission on everything he sells. if ben sold $6050.00 worth of items last week what was his total pay.

Answer 1

He has a commision of 11%, which means he gets 11% of the worth of the products he sold on top of his base salary of $400. 11% of $6050 is $665,50 so his total pay was $400 + $665,50 = $1,065.50

Answer 2

If you would like to know what was his total pay last week, you can calculate this using the following steps:

a base salary ... $400.00
an additional 11% commission on everything Ben sells
11% of $6050.00 = 11% * 6050 = 11/100 * 6050 = $665.5

$400 + $665.5 = $1065.5

Result: His total pay was $1065.5.