First you find the total amount of sales that Sara made this week by selling six lamps at $200 a piece:

Sara gets a 6% commission on her sales, so next you find what 6% of 1,200 is:

So, Sara makes $72 from commission this week. However, we can't forget about the $500 weekly salary she also gets! We add her week's commission plus weekly salary to find the total amount she makes during this particular week:

We can interpret the information given in the question as "150 is 8% of some number, or whatever amount Maggie's sale is." We can turn this sentence into algebra by calling "some number" x:

From here, we solve for x by isolating it on one side of the equation:

Maggie's sale was $1,875.

From the information given in the question, we can ask ourselves the following question- $120 is what percent of $670? We can turn this into algebra by calling "what number" x:

From here, we solve for x by isolating it on the right side of the equation:

Rounding to the nearest tenth gives us 17.9, so the final answer is 17.9%.

Since the soccer team has won 8 out of 10 games, they have 8 winning games and 2 losing games.

Therefore, their win to loss ratio is:

This ratio can be reduced to:

First, you want to figure out the total cost of your purchase by adding up the price of all the items you are buying:

Then, you find the tax you will pay on this total by taking 7% of $35:

You add the cost of your purchase plus the tax to find the total amount that you have to pay:

First you find the total amount of sales that Joe made yesterday by adding the cost of each item he sold:

Joe sold $20,000 worth of furniture yesterday. He makes 15% commision, so we find 15% of 20,000:

Joe made $3,000 from commission yesterday.

A diving team that wins 6 competitions out of 10 will have 6 winning meets and 4 losing meets. Therefore, their lose to win ratio is:

This can be reduced to:

The team has won 5 games.

The number of played games is 25.

Therefore, the ratio of winnings to the total is: