Question

Larry earns $11.25/hour selling televisions. He also earns 4.5% commission on his sales. What is his

gross weekly pay for a week in which he worked 35 hours and sold $4000 worth of televisions?
A) $180.00
B) $393.75
C) $573.75
D) $628.45

Answer 1

C) $573.75

Explanation:

We can come up with the equation of this Gross Weekly pay as:

`P(t)=11.25t+0.045S`

Where P is the amount Larry will get paid, t is the time worked and S is the amount of sales he generated that week. This was derived from the fact that 11.25 is the slope and 0.045S is the y-intercept. By plugging in those values we have:

`P(35)=11.25(35)+0.045(4000)=573.75`

C) $573.75