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Problem Statement

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Salesmen and saleswomen often work for a commission. In other words, they get to keep a certain percentage of the sales they make. You have a saleswoman working for you who gets a whopping 20% commission, which cuts deep into your profit margins. You are considering replacing her with a cheaper salesman who will keep commission% of his sales. Out of each sale, cost% of the sale goes towards the cost of your products and other overhead. Your current saleswoman sells $sales of products a year. Your task is to determine how much the potential salesman would have to sell in a year to make you the same profit.?

Definition

Class:: Commission
Method:: equivalentSales
Parameters:: double, double, double
Returns:: double
Method signature:: double equivalentSales(double sales, double cost, double commission)
(be sure your method is public)

Notes

Your result must have relative or absolute error of less than 1e-9.
The commission is based on the gross sale, not the part of the sale that is above and beyond the cost. Therefore, if sales were $1000, your current saleswoman's commission would be $200.
Note that neither sales nor the return value need to be in whole cents.

Constraints

sales will be between 1 and 1e10, inclusive.
cost will be between 0.5 and 79.5, inclusive.
commission will be between 0.5 and 19.5, inclusive.

Examples

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100.555
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70.0
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10.0
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Returns: 50.2775
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If you hire the new salesman, your profit margin will double from 10% to 20%. Thus, in order to make the same profits, he needs only sell half as much.
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756840
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74.3
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11.5
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Returns: 303801.971830986
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Your profit from your current saleswoman is $43139.88. If the potential salesman sells a little over $303801.97, your profit will also be the same.
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10000000000
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79.5
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19.5
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Returns: 5.0E9
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Note that the exact answer is $5E9, but a return of $4.999999999999823E9, for example, has an error of $0.000177 which is a relative error of much less than 1e-9.

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