Question

A salesperson had 360,000 dollars in sales last year, which is 40% of the sales she had this year. Which equation could be used to determine x, the salesperson’s total amount of sales, in dollars, for this year?

Answer 1

Answer:
`0.4x=360,000`

Explanation:

From the problem it can be seen that 360,000 is 40% of the sales she got this year. So, 40% of her sales is 360,000.

40% of x is mathematically 0.4 times x.

Therefore the equation you could use is:
`0.4x=360,000`

If you want to solve this for x, simply divide 0.4 from both sides to get x by itself.

`x=((360,000)/(0.4))=900,000`

So this year she made 900,000 dollars.