Question

Kirk earns 10% commission as a salesperson. He sold a camera that cost $97. How much

commission did Kirk earn?
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Answer 1

Kirk earned $9.70 from commission.

Explanation:

We are given that Kirk earns a 10% commission. He also sold a camera that was worth $97.

Commission is an added payment based usually on the number of sales that a person makes. Therefore, say for every 10 sales, someone can earn a 5% commission.

Since Kirk earns a 10% commission, this is the same as finding 10% of the total sales and then adding this to receive a total sum.

However, if you simply add the percentage to 100% of the sales (e.g., 100% + 5% = 105%), this gives you the total plus the new amount.

We have to divide our percentage by 100 to place it in decimal form.

`\displaystyle (110\%)/(100) = 1.10`

After it is in decimal form, we can multiply the decimal by the total sales price in order to get the price and the added commission.

`\displaystyle 1.10 * \$97 = \$106.70`

Finally, we can subtract the sales price from the total price to get the money that Kirk earned from commission.

`106.70-97 = \$9.70`

Therefore, Kirk earned $9.70 from commission.