Dyer's office solutions offers its sales representatives a choice between being paid a commission of 8% of sales or being paid a monthly salary of $1500 plus a commission of 1% of sales. for what amount of monthly sales do the two plans pay the same amount?

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.

It is b as the correct answer is 0.088, you are able to work these out on a calculator or without a calculator if you type in the exact sum that is given for harder questions like these!