Percentages in the Real World Examples Page 1

You landed a fabulous summer job working as a sales assistant at Shmacy's.  You earn a 4% commission on every sale you make, in addition to your wage of $8.50/hour.  After a long seven-hour shift, your sales totaled $1250.  What are your total earnings for that shift?

First, you earn $8.50/hour and worked seven grueling hours. That would total .

In addition you earned 4% of your sales, $1250. Using the proportion method, this would be set up as:

Now cross multiply.

And divide by the coefficient (100).

So, you earned $50 in commission.

Combining your commission and wages, you earned a total of
 in one day. Cha-ching!