| A | B |
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| Commission | a fee paid to the person who makes a sale |
| make a sale | to sell something |
| clerk | salesperson |
| commission rate | commission as a % of sales price |
| cost of an item before tax | sales price |
| a sale | items are offered for a lower price |
| sales tax | an additional amount you have to pay for an item; it's a percent of the sales price |
| equation for Commission Rate | Commission Rate x Sales |
| Earnings | How much money you get for your work |
| Profit | how much money you have left after your expenses (the things you have to buy) |
| sales tax rate | the percent of tax on items you buy |
| mark up | adding more to the price of an item |
| discount | subtracting from the price of an item (similar to a sale) |
| tenths place | .X |
| rounding | look next door, 5 or more add one more |
| thousandths place | .00X |
| 100ths place | .0X |
| Tens place | X0.00 |
| Ones place | X.0 |
| 1/3 as a decimal | 33.3 (repeating) |
| 2/3 as a decimal | 66.6 (repeating) |
| 4/5 as a percent | 80% |
| 1/4 as a percent | 25% |
| 1/5 as a percent | 20% |
| 1/2 as a percent | 50% |
| 1/2 as a decimal | .5 |
| 4% as a decimal | .04 |
| 5% as a decimal | .05 |
| 7.75% as a decimal | .0775 |
| 10% as a decimal | .1 |
| Find the sales tax amount on an item you want to buy | Sales Tax = Price of Item x Sales Tax Rate (%) |
| Find the price of what you want to buy, including sales tax. | Total Price = Sales Tax Amount + Price of Item |
