Clara earns an hourly rate of $20 per hour and 5% commission. Rose earns an hourly rate of

Question

$16 per hour and 10% commission. They each work a 40-hour week. In one particular week,
Clara and Rose both sold the same value of goods and both received the same wage. How much
did they sell and what was their wage?

Answer 1

(20 * 40) + .05 s = (16 * 40) + .10 s

solve for s (amount of sales) , then substitute back to find total wage