Question

a salesman makes $35,000 per year plus $400 for each large appliance he sells. write and solve an equation to determine how many large appliances he sold if he made $57,400 this year.

Answer 1

The salesman sold 56 large appliances.

Explanation:

$57,400 - $35,000 = $22,400

He made $22,400 off the appliances.

To find how many appliances, you can divide 22,400 by 400.

The equation should be ($57,400 - $35,000)/400 = x

Here x represents the amount of large appliances sold. If you run the equation, the answer you should get is 56.