Question

Benny gets a job at a law firm with a salary of $70,000 per year after the first year his salary increases to 73,000 over the next five years he gets an increase of 3000 every year what equation would represent Benny’s annual salary over the years

Answer 1

Answer:

  b(t) = 70,000 + 3000t . . . . . salary after t years; t∈{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}

Step-by-step explanation:

We can let b(t) represent Benny's salary function with t being the number of completed years at the law firm, an integer. The function's domain includes only the first 6 years at the firm.

Since Benny gets the same raise each year, The function is linear. Its "y-intercept" is Benny's initial salary, and the rate of change is Benny's annual increase:

  b(t) = 70,000 + 3,000t . . . . salary in dollars after t years with the firm