Question

Kathy's monthly salary is $3,250, plus she earns 1.4% commission on her sales each month. Kathy's sales for September were $51,000. What were her total earnings for September?

Answer 1

Explanation:

We can start off by putting this into an equation. Kalil's monthly salary is not a changing value, so that stays put. However, any additional money he gets from selling his stuff, he gets to keep 1.4%.

Thus, we can just add his salary and his commission earnings.

To find the commission, we just multiply 1.4% by $51,000 (the total sales, not his salary).

Thus, Kalil got $3964 in July.