What are the steps in solving this word problem?Amos is paid $175 per week plus 18% of his sales total. Bart is paid $325 per week plus 12% of his sales total. For what sales total will the men be paid the same amount per week and how much will be paid?

Both Jenny and Masur are salespeople for Athletic Shoes. Jenny gets paid $8 per hour plus 4% commission on the sales. Masur gets paid $10 per hour plus 8% commission on the sales in excess of $1,000. If they work 8-hour days, for what sales amount would they both earn the same daily amounts?

Tom and Jennifer are buying a stereo together. The total cost of the stereo is $400. If Jennifer pays $300, Tom's contribution is what percentage of the total cost?

A man went to the store to buy some gum. The man had some change (three quarters, 2 nickels, one dime, and two pennies) in his pocket. When the cashier asked him to pay the total amount for the gum, the man could not pay the exact amount but could pay for the gum. The total price was greater than $0.75 and less than $1. What could have been the cost of the gum?

If four cars sell for an average of $10,000 each and three of the cars sell for $8,400 each, what is the cost of the fourth car?

Two large lemonades cost $2.18 and three small lemonades cost $2.22. If Jacob bought five large lemonades and two small lemonades, how much did he pay in total.

A school supplies vending machine has pencils at 2 for a quarter and notebooks at fifty cents each. If the machine accepts only quarters, how many quarters are needed for the purchase of 6 pencils and 2 notebooks?

How much will you pay for 1 Ib of chocolate 12 Ib of chocolate is $155

The cost to attend a movie is $10 for adults, while children are admitted for $7. If a movie was attended by 63 people who paid a total of $489, how many adults and how many children attended the movie? adults and children attended the movie. (Simplify your answers.)

The area of a square farm field was 25 acres. The field was divided into separate square lots of 1 acre. A fence was placed around the outside of the entire field. The base price for a lot was $1200. Lots on the edge, which had fences, cost $150 more for each side that had a fence. What were the different prices for the lots in this field, and how many of each price were there?