Teresa earns a weekly salary of $925 and a 5% commission on her total sales. Ramon earns a weekly salary of $1250 and a 3% commission on sales. What amount of sales, x, will result in each of them earning the same amount for the week

Subtracting 0.03x from both sides we got:

And now subtracting 925 from both sides we got:

And dividing by 0.02 both sides we got:

So then we need a total 16250 for the amount of sales in order to have the same amount for Ramon and Teresa at the end of the week

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we can assume that the total salary for Teresa T is given by:

Where x represent the amount of sales. And similarly for the total salary of Ramon we have:

We want to find what amount of sales, x, will result in each of them earning the same amount for the week and we can set up the following equation:

Subtracting 0.03x from both sides we got:

And now subtracting 925 from both sides we got:

And dividing by 0.02 both sides we got:

So then we need a total 16250 for the amount of sales in order to have the same amount for Ramon and Teresa at the end of the week

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square