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Yakvenalex [24]
3 years ago
10

Zoe is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She is paid a 1% commission for every computer sale she makes,

and also makes a base pay each day regardless of sales. One day, Zoe sold $8000 worth of computers and was paid a total of $140 that day. Write an equation for the function P ( x ) , P(x), representing Zoe's total pay on a day on which she sells x x dollars worth of computers.
Mathematics
1 answer:
ella [17]3 years ago
5 0

<u>Given:</u>

Zoe gets paid a 1% commission for every sale she makes in addition to base pay.

She sold $8,000 worth of computers on a day and made $140 that day.

<u>To find:</u>

A function P(x) representing total pay on a day where she sells x dollars worth of computers.

<u>Solution:</u>

To determine the function P(x) we need to determine how much Zoe's base pay per day is.

One day, she sold $8,000 worth of computers and made $140 that day.

She gets a commission of 1% for $8,000.

1% of $8,000 = \frac{1}{100} (8,000) = 80.

So she got paid $140 out of which $80 was a commission.

So her base pay = 140-80 = 60.

So Zoe's base pay is $60 a day.

P(x) is the sum of her base pay and 1% of the amount of computer sales she makes ($x).

So P(x) = 60 + (0.01)x, where x is the computer sales she makes in dollars. P(x) is represented in dollars.

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