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You sell medical equipment. You earn $30,000 salary, plus a bonus. Your bonus is 1/30 of the amount by which your sales exceed $500,000. How much must you sell to earn $40,000?
Set up equation and solve.
To earn $40,000 you must sell $800,000 of medical equipment.
Equation: 40,000=30,000 + 1/30(total sales-500,000)