Question

An art dealer makes a 17.5% commission on every painting sold.If a painting sold for 1,500 what was the commission

Answer 1

let the paint sold be 100% =1500.subtract 17.5% from 100% which gives you 82.5%.      82.5/10x1500 =1237.5 which amount of money w/o the commission to get the commission subtract it from 1500 which is 262.50 commission