Question

Duncan shares 20 percent of all of his his sales commissions with his personal assistant. If Duncan earns x dollars in commissions and gives his assistant y dollars, which equation correctly models this situation?

Answer 1

The correct equation that models for this problem is x over y or x/y.
Let the following values be:

x - would be the money or commissions that Duncan earned.
y - would be the 20 percent that he gives his assistant