Question

Floyd is an aspiring music artist. He has a record deal that pays him a base rate of $200 a month and an additional $12 for each album sold. Last month, he earned a total of $644.

Write an equation to represent the situation. Let A represent the number of albums he sells.

Solve you equation to find how many albums he sold.

Please so your work, thanks

Answer 1

12a+200=644

Explanation:

take the equation and cancel out 200 and do it to both sides

12a+200=644

-200. -200

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12a=444

then we need to get the variable alone so divide by 12.

12a = 444

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12. 12

a=37

444 divided by 12 will equal 37