Question

Jerry and Anne have summer jobs selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door, but their compensation plans are different. Jerry earns a base wage of $11 per hour, as well as $2 for every subscription that he sells. Anne gets $3 per subscription sold, in addition to a base wage of $10 per hour. If they each sell a certain number of subscriptions in an hour, they will end up earning the same amount. How many subscriptions would that be? How much would each one earn?

Answer 1

That would be 8 subscribers and they would earn 78