Question

When hired at a new job selling jewelry, you are given two pay options:Option A: Base salary of $17,000 a year, with a commission of 8% of your sales for the year.Option B: Base salary of $21,000 a year, with a commission of 4% of your sales for the year.How many dollars of sales would need to be sold in order for the two options to produce the samesalary for you?$of jewelry each year.Round your answer to the nearest cent as needed.

Answer 1

let x be the cost of jwellery sold by you.

The equation for option A is given by:

`y=17000+(8)/(100)x`

The equation for option B is given by:

`y=21000+(4)/(100)x`

So the equality is given by:

`\begin{gathered} 17000+(8)/(100)x=21000+(4)/(100)x \\ (4)/(100)x=4000 \\ x=100000 \end{gathered}`

Hence the sales should be 100000$ for you to make the same salary on both options.