Question

Selena has been hired as a sales associate at Better Rooms furniture store. She has two salary options. She can choose to receive either a fixed salary of $850 per week or a salary of $400 per week plus a 6% commission of her weekly sales. Which solution set below represents the dollar amount of sales that she must generate each week in order for the option with commission to be the better choice? Let s represent the sales for the week

Answer 1

Sales have to be more than $7,500.

Explanation:

850 > 400 + 0.06s

850 - 400 < 0.06s

450/0.06 < s

7500 < s