Question

1. At a leather shop, 50 leather jackets were sold in February. The shop keeper at the store wants to encourage the sales team to sell more leather jackets by giving all the sales team members a bonus if the number of leather jackets sold increases by 30% in March. How many leather jackets must the sales team sell in March to receive the bonus?

Answer 1

65 shirts.

Explanation:

50 is the amount of shirts sold in February.

30% increase=1.3

1.3(50)

65

They need to sell 65 shirts in March to get the bonus.