Question

Jonae gets paid $16.50 an hour working at a furniture store. She also gets paid 20% of all of the store's furniture sales each week. This week, the store made $600 on a table and $400 on chairs. If Jonae worked 40 hours this week, how much will she be paid?

Answer 1

$860

Explanation:

Jonae makes $16.50 an hour and worked 40 hours. Multiply the hours worked by the amount of money she earned.

$16.50 × 40 = $660

The stored made $600 on a table and $400 on chairs, which, in total, is $1000. Since Jonae gets paid 20% of all of the furniture sales, multiply the total sales by the percentage.

$1000 × 0.2 = $200

Add together the earnings she made per hour and the earnings she made from the furniture store's sales.

$660 + $200 = $860