Question

a salesperson at a car dealership earns a monthly salary of $2400 and $250 for each vehicle sold. a. how many vehicles does the salesperson need to sell in a month to earn $4400?

Answer 1

Answer:

8 vehicle.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: Monthly salary of salesperson is $2400

          Incentive of salesperson is $250 per vehicle sold.

First, lets compute income to earned apart from salary.

∴ Deduct salary from the target amount

$\ 4400-\ 2400= \ 2000$

∴ $2000 need to be earned only through incentive, which is $250 per vehicle sold.

Now, solving to get number vehicles to be sold to earn $2000 as incentive.

Number of vehicle= $\frac{2000}{250}= 8\ vehicles$

∴ 8 vehicles need to be sold by salesperson to get total earning as $4400.