A salesman makes a 10% commission on the selling price for each light switch he sells. If he sells 220 switches and the selling price of each switch is $6, what is his total commission?
A
66
B
88
C
100
D
120
E
132
Correct answer: E
Explanation
Commission per one switch: 6 * 0.10 = 0.60
Total commission = total switches sold * commission per switch = 220 * 0.60 = 132
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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