Aaliyah is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She makes a base pay of $70 each day and then is paid a $1
.25 commission for every computer sale she makes. Write an equation for P,P, in terms of x,x, representing Aaliyah's total pay on a day on which she sells xx computers. Answer: P=
So we know that Aaliyah earns $1.25 commission for every computer she sells. No matter what, she will make $70 per day, so that would be our constant. The $1.25 would be our independent variable since it can change depending on the amount of computers x she sells. Therefore, our equation is:
P represents the total pay, 1.25x represents the total commission for x computers, and the 70 is the base pay.
