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Juan works at a retail store. He earns $6 an hour plus a $5 bonus each time he gets someone to sign up for the store's credit card Write a formula that will help Juan determine how much he will earn in one week.

Let's let a = total amount earned

h = hours worked in one week

b = number of cards sold in one week

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Juan works at a retail store. He earns $6 an hour plus a $5 bonus each time he gets someone to sign up for the store's credit card Write a formula that will help Juan determine how much he will earn in one week.

Let's let a = total amount earned

h = hours worked in one week

b = number of cards sold in one week


a=6*h+5*b

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Answer:


a=(6h+5b) (in dollars)

Explanation:

As given,

Let a = total amount earned

Let h = hours worked in one week

Let b = number of cards sold in one week

Given is that Juan earns $6 an hour, means in total he earns =
6h

He also gets a bonus of $5 each time he gets someone to sign up for the store's credit card, means he gets
5b

So, total amount for the week will be = His weekly salary plus weekly bonus.

This becomes :
a=(6h+5b) (in dollars)

We can check the equation by taking this example.

Lets assume that Juan woks 30 hours a week and sold 3 cards.

So, as per
a=(6h+5b) amount becomes =
(6*30)+(5*3)

=
180+15=195

Thus the formula will be :
a=(6h+5b) (in dollars)

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