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Floyd is an aspiring music artist. He has a record contract that pays him a base rate of $200 a month and an additional $12 for each album that he sells. Last month he earned a total of \$644$644dollar sign, 644. Write an equation to determine the number of albums (a)(a)left parenthesis, a, right parenthesis Floyd sold last month.

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200+12m= 644
subtract 200 from both sides
12m= 444
divide both sides by 12
m= 37

he sold 37 albums
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