Explanation for Question 34 From the Math (Calc) Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 34 tells us that Trevor works as a sales associate and he's normally 2 paid 20% of the retail value of the merchandise. 3 And then he also has eight bonuses. So bonus and 20% of what he 4 sells says when he earns a bonus, 5 he gets 15% of whatever his normal pay would have been. 6 So this simply describes that bonus a little bit more. 7 And then during a one day period, right, Trevor sold a $3,500 8 of merchandise and he also got a bonus, 9 right? So Trevor's going to get this bonus. And he's also going to get 10 20% of that 3,500. 11 And so we want to know how much was he paid during that period. 12 And so this pay is going to account for the 20% and 13 the bonus, right? So step one is defined the 20% of 3,500. 14 And we find that by doing 0.2 times 3,500, 15 so we'll do 0.2 times 3,500 and that $700, 16 right? So that's kind of like his base pay. He's going to make $700 17 and he's going to get a bonus, right? And that bonus is 15% of 18 the normal pay. Now 700 is the normal pay, 19 right? So I'll do 0.1, five times 700 to figure out what that bonus 20 would be. 21 And that's $105. So now to find his total pay for that day, 22 I simply need to add the normal, the normal pay plus the bonus and 23 700 plus 105 is 805. 24 So our answer for this question for his total pay will be 805 because 25 that accounts for the 20% and also the 15% bonus.