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Marta sells Sue Ann Cosmetics and gets

20% commission on all her sales. Last
month, she sold $560.00 worth of
cosmetics. How much was her
commission?





Please help it’s urgent

User Jarrel
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Answer: $112

Explanation:

o get the solution, we are looking for, we need to point out what we know.

1. We assume, that the number 560 is 100% - because it's the output value of the task.

2. We assume, that x is the value we are looking for.

3. If 560 is 100%, so we can write it down as 560=100%.

4. We know, that x is 20% of the output value, so we can write it down as x=20%.

5. Now we have two simple equations:

1) 560=100%

2) x=20%

where left sides of both of them have the same units, and both right sides have the same units, so we can do something like that:

560/x=100%/20%

6. Now we just have to solve the simple equation, and we will get the solution we are looking for.

7. Solution for what is 20% of 560

560/x=100/20

(560/x)*x=(100/20)*x - we multiply both sides of the equation by x

560=5*x - we divide both sides of the equation by (5) to get x

560/5=x

112=x

x=112

now we have:

20% of 560=112

User Ajmal Kunnummal
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