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SAT Math 9.1 Algebra and Functions
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- 00:04
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- 00:07
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- 00:12
A salesman earns a base pay of $12/hour plus 5% commission on his sales.
- 00:17
If he sells $35,000 worth of goods working seven 8-hour days, how much is his total pay?
- 00:27
Okay, so we're trying to find the total income of a salesman.
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- 00:31
His pay comes from two sources: Hourly rate, and commission.
- 00:36
The sum of the two is what we're looking for.
- 00:39
First, we'll find his hourly rate.
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Well each hour, the salesman earns 12 bucks, but how long did he work?
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Well, he worked seven 8 hour days,
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so we can just get a total by multiplying the two and we get 7 times 8 is
- 00:53
56 hours total for that week.
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Now we just multiply $12 per hour by 56 hours and that gets us $672 in a week,
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but we can't forget his 5% commission on his $35,000 of sales.
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We can multiply 35,000 by .05 to get $1,750.
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From his hourly rate, the salesman earns $672, and another $1,750 from commission.
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And it totals $2,422.
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Not bad for a week's work.
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