Benyamin receives 45% of the commission on every painting he sells. If he recently sold a painting of \$256,000 and received a commission of \$7,488, what was the total rate of commission?
I am not getting what exactly is being asked since we do not know the total number of painting?
My Try:
Let $x$ be the total commission.
then $(0.45)x=\$7488$ and so $x=\$16640$.
Now we have got total commission; how to proceed?
Best Answer
Let $A$ denote the sales price, $B$ denote the commission, and $C$ denote Benyamin's share of that commission.
We have $C=0.45B$ and $B=xA$, where $x$ is what we want to learn. We also know $A=256000$ and $C=7488$.
Can you finish from here?