Question

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

Answer 1

Hey there! So, let's break this down like an episode of a reality show, cool?

Norma Jean is earning $25 per hour, right? And she's putting in 35 hours a week. That's a total of 25 bucks * 35 hours which gives her $875 per week. This is her base pay, like, no matter what, she's pocketing this amount.

But she wants to make $4,500 in a week. So if we subtract her base pay from that goal, it looks like this: $4,500 - $875 = $3,625. This is the extra she needs to make from commissions.

Her commission rate is 15%, so to find out how much she needs to sell to make that extra $3,625, we can use this formula:

Sales = Extra / Commission Rate

Plug in the values and it's like:

Sales = $3,625 / 0.15

Doing the math, we get $24,166.67. So, Norma Jean needs to sell about $24,166.67 worth of... whatever she's selling to hit her goal of $4,500 in a week. Talk about hustling, right?

Remember to double check your work or use a calculator if you're not feeling confident about the math. You got this, fam!

Answer 2

well, we know she makes $25 per hour, so hmmm if she works 35 hours that'd be (25)(35) = 875 bucks.

Now, if she's going to make $4500 total including her hourly rate plus commission, hmmm that means her commission must be 4500 - 875 = 3625 bucks, and since we know that she makes 15% of sales for her commission, that means that those $3625 are 15% of hmmm say "x", her total sales, keeping in mind that "x" is really the 100%.

So, if we know that "x" is 100%, and 15% of that is $3625, what the heck is "x"?

`\begin{array}{ccll} Amount&\%\\ \cline{1-2} x & 100\\ 3625& 15 \end{array} \implies \cfrac{x}{3625}~~=~~\cfrac{100}{15} \\\\\\ \cfrac{x}{3625} ~~=~~ \cfrac{20}{3}\implies 3x=72500\implies x=\cfrac{72500}{3}\implies \stackrel{ \textit{about \$24,166 and 67 cents} }{x=24166(2)/(3)}`