Download You earn a base salary of $2200 a month plus a sales commission

8.6 Applications of Percents
Commission is money paid to a person or a company for
making a sale. It's usually a percent of the sale amount.
You earn a base salary of $2200 a month plus a
sales commission of 5%. Your total sales for one
month were $20,000. Find your total pay for the
month.
You need to earn a total of $3950 next
month in order to pay all of your bills.
Write an equation and find the amount
your sales must be in order to earn $3950.
A realtor sold a house for $325,000.
She earns 6% commission on each sale.
How much did the realtor earn?
A salesman earned $1500 when he
sold a $50,000 car.
What is percent commission?
Sales Tax
The sales tax rate is 6.75%.
Find the amount of sales tax on a shirt that costs $29.50
What is the total cost for the shirt?
Withholding Tax is a tax that is deducted from a
person's earnings. It's an advance payment of
income tax.
Joe earns $1070 each month.
Of that, $160.50 is withheld for taxes.
What percent of Joe's earnings is withheld?
Charles works as a salesperson at an electronics store.
If he earns $29.94 from a 6% commission on the sale
of a video camera, what is the price of the camera?