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Choice of Two Jobs You receive two sales job offers. One company offers a straight commission of 6$\%$ of sales. The other company offers a salary of $\$ 500$ per week plus 3$\%$ of sales. How much would you have to sell in a week in order to make the straight commission job offer better?

          Choice of Two Jobs You receive two sales job
offers. One company offers a straight commission of 6$\%$
of sales. The other company offers a salary of $\$ 500$ per
week plus 3$\%$ of sales. How much would you have to
sell in a week in order to make the straight commission
job offer better?

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Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

Alan S. Tussy, R. David Gustafson 5th Edition

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Let's call this amount "x". For the straight commission job offer, the earnings would be 6% of x. For the other job offer, the earnings would be $500 + 3\%$ of x. We want to find the value of x that makes the straight commission job offer better, so we need to Show more…

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Choice of Two Jobs You receive two sales job offers. One company offers a straight commission of 6$\%$ of sales. The other company offers a salary of $\$ 500$ per week plus 3$\%$ of sales. How much would you have to sell in a week in order to make the straight commission job offer better?