Alright, I always start out with laying out what I don’t know, then making a plan to solve for what I don’t know.
Here is what we know:
- A salesperson had 240,000 last year in sales
- 240,000 is 60% of the sales this year
Here is the plan to create the equation:
1. Determine what we don’t know
2. Put in variables for what we don’t know
3. Put in what we do know
4. Write final equation/answer
Let’s start with step one.
We don’t know the total amount of sales the salesperson had this year
Step two:
Since your problem says to use x, we will use x for what we don’t know.
Step three:
Let’s put in what we do know. We know that we have to put in 60% of x, or what we don’t know, and it all has to equal 240,000.
Step four:
Let’s write the final equation:
0.6 (60%)*x(what we don’t know)= 240,000 (sales last year)
So the answer and final equation would be 0.6x=240,000
If you need to find the answer to this equation, divide both sides by 0.6 and get 400,000 dollars which is the total sales
Hope this helped! Comment if you have any questions!
