Question

A sneaker store salesman had $4,125 in total monthly sales last month. he made $165 in commission from those sales. what is the salesman's commission as a percent of his total monthly sales?

Answer 1

He made $\frac{165}{4125}$ as a commission. To turn that into a percentage, you need to make the bottom become 100. Multiply the top and bottom by $\frac{100}{4125}$ to get the proper fraction. The fraction now is $\frac{\frac{16500}{4125}}{100}$ This simplifies to $\frac{4}{100}$. Now all you need to do is take the top of that fraction to get the percentage, which is 4%.

4%