Question

01:29:01 Nikhil gets paid a 5 percent commission on every pair of shoes that he sells. He earned $1.00 on the last pair of shoes that he sold. The expression that can be used to represent x, the price of the shoes, is 0.05 x = 1 What was the price of the shoes?

Answer 1

the price of the shoes is $20

Explanation:

According to the question, The computation of the price of the shoes is shown below:

Data provided in the question

0.05x = 1

Based on the above information

We now solve for x

x = 1 ÷ 0.05

It can be written as

= 100 ÷ 5

= $20

hence, the price of the shoes is $20