Question

A salesperson at Company Z makes 35% commission on all the items he or she sells. If last month a salesperson sold d dollars of merchandise, which expression can be used to calculate how much commission the salesperson earned?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation: For each dollar in sales, the salesperson makes 0.35 dollars (35 cents) in commission.

If the salesperson sells two dollars worth of merchandise, their commission will be 2(0.35) = 0.70 dollars.

Answer 2

35% is the same as the decimal form 0.35 since you move the decimal point 2 spots to the left, or you can compute 35% = 35/100 = 0.35

Multiply that decimal number by the amount of merchandise sold in dollars, which is d, to get 0.35*d or just 0.35d

We don't know the value of d, so we can't compute further. We leave it as is.