sat数学题(英语) Tom and Alison are both salespeople,Tom's weekly compensation consists of $300 plus 20 percent of his sales.Alson's weekly compensation consists of $200 plus 25 percent of her sales.if they both bad the same amount of slaes and the same compensaton for a particular week what was that compensation in dollars.(Disregard the dollar sign when gridding your answer)

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sat数学题(英语)
Tom and Alison are both salespeople,Tom's weekly compensation consists of $300 plus 20 percent of his sales.Alson's weekly compensation consists of $200 plus 25 percent of her sales.if they both bad the same amount of slaes and the same compensaton for a particular week what was that compensation in dollars.(Disregard the dollar sign when gridding your answer)

The amount of sales is 2,000 and the weely compensation for both of them is 700 dollars

Let the sales be a dollars and compensation be b dollarsTom:300 + a*20% = bAlison:200 + a*25% = b300 + 0.2a = 200 + 0.25a,0.05a = 100,a = 2000b = 300+2000*20% = 300 + 400 = 700