Question

A sales person at a car dealership earns a monthly salary of $2400 and $250 for each vehicle sold

3. The car dealership sets a goal for each salesperson to sell at least 12 cars per month. The salesperson
achieves this goal every month for the entire year. What is the minimum amount of money the
salesperson earns for the entire year? Show your work.
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Answer 1

8 vehicles

Explanation:

Given: Monthly salary of salesperson is $2400

Incentive of salesperson is $250 per vehicle sold.

First, lets compute income to earned apart from salary.

∴ Deduct salary from the target amount

$2000 need to be earned only through incentive, which is $250 per vehicle sold.

Now, solving to get number vehicles to be sold to earn $2000 as incentive.

Number of vehicle=

8 vehicles need to be sold by salesperson to get total earning as $4400.