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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 your equation to find how many albums he sold.

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Answer:

a = 37

Explanation:

We can formulate the equation:

f(a) = 12a + 200 // Let a be the number of albums sold and f(a) be the amount of money made.

We know that The total made $644 so we have the equation:

644 = 12a + 200

-200 -200

444 = 12a

444/12 = a

a = 37

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