A question on semantics

[MWW7786]

Test II, Question #11



A sales associate earns a commission of 8% on her first $10,000 in sales revenue in a given week and a commission of 10% on any additional sales revenue that the associate generates that week. How much sales revenue did the associate generate last week?

(1) The sales associate earned a total of $1500 in commission last week.

(2) Last week, the sales associate was eligible for the 10% commission rate on $7000 worth of sales.


This is a nasty trick I feel because of the word eligible:
Technically his revenue could be more.

After a second look, it appears that since they gave us $7000 worth of sales for a 10% commission a definite value for sales revenue could be determined. Is this correct, or is there another reason?

[dbernst]

MWW7786,

I tend to agree with your second assessment - though I might have chosen a word different from "eligible" had I written the question, statement II does provide a definitive value for sales revenue.

-dan

[StaceyKoprince]

Please don't forget to cite the author of the problem. If you don't, we have to delete the question, as we cannot post anything that has not been properly sourced due to copyright issues.

Luckily, I recognize this one - it's one of our own. :)

[shaan17]

Is the answer D ? And as per statement (2) can we say that the total revenue is 10,000 + 7000 ?

[StaceyKoprince]

The answer is D and revenue is 17k! :)

[shaan17]

Thanks Stacey !

[StaceyKoprince]

You're welcome - nice job!